LiDCO announces that the Company has signed a variation agreement to its existing commercial collaboration with CNSystems Medizintechnik AG, Graz, Austria ("CNS") providing LiDCO with access to CNS' latest continuous non-invasive blood pressure monitoring ('CNAP') software. The main improvements with this latest software are: Faster set-up, significantly reducing the time to start monitoring, meaning that clinicians can be monitoring their patients in less than a minute; Sensor size assistant, automatically recognising if an incorrect sensor size is attached, ensuring an error-free application that gives notice to the user if finger sensor size does not fit; Improved signal optimisation, for more reliable short and long term blood pressure tracking, featuring a new automated signal quality check that analyses blood pressure on a beat-to-beat basis to ensure better tracking of quick blood pressure changes. These significant upgrades are part of the continuous development and life cycle management of LiDCO's technology. The Company expects to launch these as part of its existing monitor platform in the first half of 2020.