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Date Announced: 11 Jun 2013
Agreement with Leading Supplier Advances National Push into the Animal Healthcare Market.
IRVINE, Calif., June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Masimo (MASI) announced today that Butler Schein Animal Health, the U.S. animal health business of Henry Schein, Inc. (HSIC), is now a distributor of Masimo's breakthrough line of pulse oximetry technologies.
Surgical anesthesia used on animals can severely limit peripheral perfusion or blood circulation to the extremities, sometimes making it nearly impossible to get accurate oxygenation and pulse rate readings without the proper technology. Inaccurate readings can delay proper diagnosis and treatment, potentially putting the animal patient's life at risk. Post-surgery, animal patients also need to be monitored for respiratory and cardiovascular problems – a major cause of post-operative death among dogs and cats.1
Masimo's upgradable rainbow® Radical-7® Pulse CO-Oximeter, Rad-87®, Rad-57®, Rad-5® and Rad-8® – all with SET® Measure-Through Motion and Low Perfusion pulse oximetry – will be available to Butler Schein's U.S. client base of more than 26,000 veterinary professionals in all 50 states.
Masimo's technology is designed to provide clinicians oxygen saturation (SpO2) measurements under the most challenging conditions – patient motion and low perfusion, which are common in animal healthcare. Masimo SET® virtually eliminates false alarms2 and increases a clinician's ability to detect life-threatening events.3
"Masimo SET® technology has shown that pulse oximetry can be used reliably in field procedures as well as in the hospital setting," said Lin Klein, VMD, DACVA, who specializes in providing anesthesia services for tigers, leopards, cheetahs, and lions in zoos. "SET® has all but eliminated perfusion-related issues as a source of worry and frustration due to failed or inaccurate SpO2 readings."
"We are thrilled that Butler Schein Animal Health has added Masimo pulse oximetry technology to its impressive line-up of products," said Jon Coleman, President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing and Clinical Research. "Animal healthcare is an important and growing field, and offers Masimo yet another opportunity to take our noninvasive monitoring to new sites and applications."
1 Brodbelt D, Blissitt K, Hammond R, Neath P, Young L, Pfeiffer D, Wood J. "The risk of death: the Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Small Animal Fatalities." Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia, 2008, 35, 365–373.
2 Shah N, Ragaswamy H, Govindugari K, Estanol L. "Performance of three new-generation pulse oximeters during motion and low perfusion in volunteers." Journal of Clinical Anesthesia. 2012 (10.1016/j.jclinane.2011.10.012).
3 Taenzer, Andreas H.; Pyke, Joshua B.; McGrath, Susan P.; Blike, George T. "Impact of Pulse Oximetry Surveillance on Rescue Events and Intensive Care Unit Transfers: A Before-and-After Concurrence Study." Anesthesiology, February 2010, Vol. 112, Issue 2.
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