Vygon Launches Nautilus® Real-Time Catheter Tip Location

Date: Jan-25-2013Vygon (UK) Ltd has launched an innovative new ECG product designed to help reduce both
the patients' and clinicians' exposure to X-ray radiation and enhance therapy. Nautilus(R) helps you find your way during catheter
insertion by providing accurate, real-time tip location confirmation.

Thousands of peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) are placed each year, and
traditionally tip location must be confirmed by X-ray before treatment can begin.
Nautilus(R) uses innovative ECG technology to give the clinician immediate feedback on
catheter tip location, enabling consistent accurate PICC placement both in the hospital
and potentially in the community setting, meaning that treatment can begin without delay.

Nautilus(R) uses proven ECG tip confirmation technology to minimise the risks
associated with blind catheter placement such as thrombus, which can lead to hospital
associated infections. It also eliminates unnecessary exposure to harmful radiation for
both clinician and patient.

Clinical studies involving 334 varied patients show that ECG placement technology has
a 97.3% success rate for placing the catheter tip correctly first time. Correct PICC
placement on the first attempt allows the PICC to be used immediately and helps save time
and money otherwise spent on chest X-rays and other associated on-costs.

"The introduction of a new technology that uses ECG monitoring to accurately map the
tip position of a catheter during placement into a person's chest has greatly reduced
risks for our patients. This means that the catheter is positioned accurately every time
and also means patients no longer need to have an X-ray to check the catheter has been
positioned accurately - avoiding radiation exposure in this way opens this course of
treatment up to pregnant women, who previously could not have the procedure because of the
X-ray risk to the unborn child."

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