SonarMed receives U.S. Commerce Association's 2010 Best of Indianapolis Award
February 8, 2011
INDIANAPOLIS – SonarMed® Inc. has been selected for the 2010 Best of Indianapolis Award in the Medical & Hospital Equipment category by the U.S. Commerce Association (USCA).
The USCA "Best of Local Business" Award Program recognizes businesses throughout the country. Each year the USCA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. Criteria for the award include enhancing a positive image of small business through service to a company's respective customers and community.
SonarMed has developed the SonarMed® Airway Monitoring System (AMS) using acoustic technology to continuously monitor breathing tubes. The AMS can be used to assist clinicians in detecting conditions that can harm the patient, such as movement of the breathing tube, which can result in ventilation failure or lung damage, and obstruction of the breathing tube, which can deprive the patient of needed oxygen.
Compared with the conventional standards of care and available patient information, having this type of adjunctive information about the breathing tube provides clinicians with a more immediate and complete picture of the patient's respiratory support status.
The technology was developed at Purdue University in the laboratory of George R. Wodicka, professor and head of the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering. It was licensed through the Purdue Research Foundation's Office of Technology Commercialization.
About SonarMed Inc.
SonarMed Inc. provides advanced solutions for precise, real-time breathing tube monitoring for patients requiring ventilator support. The company will launch its first product, the SonarMed Airway Monitoring System, in 2011. The SonarMed system was developed with grant support from the National Institutes of Health and the Indiana 21st Century Research and Technology Fund. SonarMed is headquartered in Indianapolis.
Contacts: Daniel J. McMahon, SonarMed Inc., 317-489-3161, dmcmahon@sonarmed.com
Cynthia Sequin, Purdue Research Foundation, 765-588-3340, casequin@prf.org
