A Medical Device Daily
Stereotaxis (St. Louis) reported an agreement with Baylis Medical (Montreal) to develop and commercialize a magnetically enabled radio frequency (RF) guidewire for chronic total occlusion (CTO) applications.
The agreement includes the development of a range of magnetically enabled RF guidewires for both coronary and peripheral CTO crossing applications.
The products resulting from this collaboration will have the potential to provide physicians with the unique ability to precisely steer RF guidewires using Stereotaxis’ Niobe magnetic navigation system and then to deliver vessel recanalization therapy using the Baylis Medical RF energy delivery system.
Traditional manual approaches to percutaneous crossing of CTOs are often hindered by difficulty in controlling the guidewire tip within fully occluded vessels, the company said.
Stereotaxis makes an advanced cardiology instrument control system for use in a hospital’s interventional surgical suite to enhance the treatment of coronary artery disease and arrhythmias. The Stereotaxis System is designed to enable physicians to complete more complex interventional procedures by providing image guided delivery of catheters and guidewires through the blood vessels and chambers of the heart to treatment sites.
In other agreements news:
• Derma Sciences (Princeton, New Jersey), a supplier of wound and skin care products, said it has renewed its sales agreement with HealthPRO Procurement Services (Mississauga, Ontario), which calls itself Canada’s largest National Procurement Services Organization, and is currently Derma Sciences’ largest Canadian customer.
The renewal begins Dec. 1 and extends to Nov. 30, 2011.
The five-year agreement is an exclusive arrangement covering Derma Sciences’ general wound care products in Canada, including operating room products such as sponges, dressings and bandages.
• DJO (formerly known as dj orthopedics; Vista, California), a provider of products and services that promote musculoskeletal and vascular health,reportedthat it has renewed its three-year supply contract with Premier Purchasing Partners (San Diego).
With the agreement, which renews on Dec. 1, DJO will supply its Aircast, DonJoy and ProCare rigid and soft bracing products and cold therapy systems. The company also said that the contract includes, for the first time, the company’s bone growth stimulation devices. Financial terms were not disclosed.
• Abbott (Abbott Park, Illinois) reported signing an agreement with Blood Systems Laboratories (Scottsdale, Arizona) to supply Abbott Prism System fully automated blood screening instruments and assays for use at Blood Systems’ U.S. blood donor testing sites.
The agreement runs through 2011. No additional terms were disclosed.