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EXNT News d-Tect-OR(TM) Announces the Development of a Foreign Object Detection System for Use in Hospital Operating Rooms
TULSA, Okla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--d-Tect-OR™ seeks to eliminate the human
suffering and financial losses that result from a surgical team’s
inadvertent failure to locate and remove all surgical instruments and
surgical supplies from a patient during surgery.
Utilizing technology that has been contributed by EnXnet, Inc.
(OTCBB:EXNT) (German Symbol E8U; German WKN# A0HMDW), d-Tect-OR™
has developed a Foreign Object Detection System that uses a hand held
wand and has patented the system. This system is capable of detecting
surgical instruments and surgical products such as gauze, laparotomy
sponges, and OR towels manufactured with d-Tect-OR’s™
detection technology. Additionally, this system has a dual modality and
is capable of locating surgical instrumentation left in the body during
a surgical procedure. One additional advantage with this capability is
that the wand will be able to locate expensive instrumentation that may
have inadvertently been tossed out during a procedure.
The impact to the health care industry resulting from foreign objects
left in the body during surgery is evident in the following articles. An
August 2005 article in Clinical Nuclear Medicine concluded that
incidences of retained surgical sponge are as frequent as 1 in 100 to
3,000 for all surgical interventions and 1 in 1,000 to 1,500 for
intra-abdominal surgical interventions. Another study estimated 1 in 100
to 5,000 with a resulting mortality rate of 11% to 35%. The human
suffering and financial cost of these errors is tremendous.
The d-Tect-OR™ Foreign Object Detection System
not only has the great potential to save these lives, but it will also
benefit the health care industry in three major areas; the hospital’s
cost to litigate, the cost to the hospital to re-operate to remove the
foreign object, and the ultimate legal settlement. If you have questions
or would like additional information, please use the contact information
that follows to make inquiries.
This release may include forward-looking statements from the company
that may or may not materialize. Additional information on factors that
could potentially affect the company’s
financial results may be found in the company’s
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
