Switzerland - Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) today announced the CE mark, under the European Union Medical Device Regulation, for the LiDCO board-in-cable (BIC) module.
The LiDCO BIC module is designed to connect to multi-patient monitoring platforms, like the Masimo Root Patient Monitoring and Connectivity Hub, to provide advanced hemodynamic monitoring. With this solution, clinicians can easily add LiDCO hemodynamic monitoring - with its one-of-a-kind versatile PulseCO algorithm - to their Root patient monitoring hubs. Like the PulseCO algorithm, the LiDCO module is pressure transducer agnostic, maximizing flexibility for clinicians and hospitals. For the first time, there is now a solution that can enable hemodynamic monitoring alongside other supported parameters without having a dedicated hemodynamic monitoring box. The LiDCO module supports everything from powerful guided protocols, designed to help assess fluid responsiveness, to rich trending data and notifications for beat-by-beat pressure analysis that can be displayed in the most helpful configurations for each patient on the Root monitor. Combining Masimo rainbow Pulse CO-Oximetry and LiDCO hemodynamic monitoring brings the potential for significant new insights into patient status.
Joe Kiani, Founder and CEO of Masimo, said, 'Bringing LiDCO's beat-to-beat advanced hemodynamic monitoring to Masimo Root opens up the possibility of providing a more complete, continuous picture of cardiac output (CO) and oxygen delivery (DO2). Currently, hemodynamic monitors can provide continuous analysis of blood pressure information but rely on intermittent data from other monitors for oxygenation - giving clinicians only half of the information. Using both Masimo's breakthrough noninvasive rainbow SET Pulse CO-Oximetry parameters and LiDCO's innovative PulseCO algorithm, clinicians now have the ability to view a continuous and simultaneous display of all the components that make up a patient's oxygen delivery, DO2 - such as cardiac output (CO), stroke volume (SV), pulse rate (PR), total hemoglobin (Masimo SpHb), and fractional oxygen saturation (Masimo SET SpO2 adjusted for dyshemoglobins, SpCO and SpMet) - alongside an automated estimation of DO2. These can be displayed side by side, in real time and continuously, on Root's high-resolution screen. We are excited about what this means for surgical and critical care patients whose clinicians can finally view real-time continuous data from the breakthrough combination of LiDCO and rainbow, working synergistically together as an indication of continuous oxygen delivery.'
The LiDCO module is designed for efficient setup and simple, versatile operation, using a patient's existing arterial line and blood pressure transducer to monitor a large list of advanced hemodynamic parameters using the powerful beat-by-beat PulseCO algorithm. The beat-by-beat analysis helps to provide more immediate feedback on fluid and hemodynamic status and avoid delays common with other hemodynamic monitors, which rely on assumptions about vascular compliance or detection of the dicrotic notch. Its streamlined board-in-cable design takes into account seamless compatibility with the Root monitor and other multiparameter platforms, removing the need to add a dedicated hemodynamic monitor to the already crowded OR and ICU space.
Dr. Max Jonas, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anesthesia at Southampton General Hospital in the U.K., said, 'The introduction of the Masimo LiDCO Module is clinically very exciting, as it will deliver dynamic hemodynamic monitoring, with a known documented positive impact on patient outcome. The ability to provide individualized goal-directed therapy with calculated global oxygen delivery using LiDCO-derived cardiac output is clinically important. In my opinion understanding the individualized physiology of a particular patient is paramount to targeted treatments. Assessing preload, contractility and afterload using the LiDCO algorithm underpins patient management and the enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) process.'
Dr. Daniela Chalo, MD, PhD in Neurosciences, DESAIC, Head of Anesthesiology at Centro Hospitalar Baixo Vouga in Portugal, added, 'The LiDCO monitor offers several advantages in hemodynamic monitoring. It is a plug-and-play solution, directly connected to the patient monitor or existing blood pressure transducer, without any disposables, compatible with various patient monitoring systems, helping healthcare providers to make better decisions.' Dr. Chalo continued, 'The addition of LiDCO to the Root monitor - which also offers SpHb for hemoglobin monitoring and SedLine and O3 for brain monitoring - means that all pertinent information can be available on one sole monitor. This is an extraordinary advancement for anesthesiology and intensive care. Root raises the standard of perioperative monitoring and is even bringing it to the artificial intelligence era. This is what we have all been waiting for.'
In clinical studies, use of LiDCO has been shown to reduce postoperative complications, costs, and even mortalities at 30 and 180 days after surgery. In a randomized, controlled trial of 743 patients undergoing major abdominal surgery, researchers found hemodynamic optimization with LiDCO led to a 20% reduction in postoperative complications and, as a result, patients monitored with LiDCO were on average $530 less expensive to treat than control patients who were not monitored.1 In another study that compared the outcomes of 600 emergency laparotomy patients, researchers found that, following the implementation of a program including LiDCO technology, there was a significant decrease in mortality at 30 days (from 21.8 to 15.5%) and 180 days (from 29.5 to 22.2%).2
The combination of LiDCO and Root may potentially have an even greater impact on the care paradigm.
A parameter as a measure of continuous oxygen delivery has not received FDA clearance and is not available in the U.S.
About Masimo
Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) is a global medical technology company that develops and produces a wide array of industry-leading monitoring technologies, including innovative measurements, sensors, patient monitors, and automation and connectivity solutions. In addition, Masimo Consumer Audio is home to eight legendary audio brands, including Bowers & Wilkins, Denon, Marantz, and Polk Audio. Our mission is to improve life, improve patient outcomes, and reduce the cost of care. Masimo SET Measure-through Motion and Low Perfusion pulse oximetry, introduced in 1995, has been shown in over 100 independent and objective studies to outperform other pulse oximetry technologies.3 Masimo SET has also been shown to help clinicians reduce severe retinopathy of prematurity in neonates,4 improve CCHD screening in newborns5 and, when used for continuous monitoring with Masimo Patient SafetyNet in post-surgical wards, reduce rapid response team activations, ICU transfers, and costs.6-9 Masimo SET is estimated to be used on more than 200 million patients in leading hospitals and other healthcare settings around the world,10 and is the primary pulse oximetry at 9 of the top 10 hospitals as ranked in the 2022-23 U.S. News and World Report Best Hospitals Honor Roll.11 In 2005, Masimo introduced rainbow Pulse CO-Oximetry technology, allowing noninvasive and continuous monitoring of blood constituents that previously could only be measured invasively, including total hemoglobin (SpHb), oxygen content (SpOC), carboxyhemoglobin (SpCO), methemoglobin (SpMet), Pleth Variability Index (PVi), RPVi (rainbow PVi), and Oxygen Reserve Index (ORi). In 2013, Masimo introduced the Root Patient Monitoring and Connectivity Platform, built from the ground up to be as flexible and expandable as possible to facilitate the addition of other Masimo and third-party monitoring technologies; key Masimo additions include Next Generation SedLine Brain Function Monitoring, O3 Regional Oximetry, and ISA Capnography with NomoLine sampling lines. Masimo's family of continuous and spot-check monitoring Pulse CO-Oximeters includes devices designed for use in a variety of clinical and non-clinical scenarios, including tetherless, wearable technology, such as Radius-7, Radius PPG, and Radius VSM, portable devices like Rad-67, fingertip pulse oximeters like MightySat Rx, and devices available for use both in the hospital and at home, such as Rad-97. Masimo hospital and home automation and connectivity solutions are centered around the Masimo Hospital Automation platform, and include Iris Gateway, iSirona, Patient SafetyNet, Replica, Halo ION, UniView, UniView :60, and Masimo SafetyNet. Its growing portfolio of health and wellness solutions includes Radius T, Masimo W1, and Masimo Stork.
ORi and RPVi have not received FDA 510(k) clearance and are not available for sale in the United States. The use of the trademark Patient SafetyNet is under license from University HealthSystem Consortium.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes forward-looking statements as defined in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, in connection with the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include, among others, statements regarding the potential effectiveness of Masimo LiDCO, Root, and rainbow SET. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations about future events affecting us and are subject to risks and uncertainties, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond our control and could cause our actual results to differ materially and adversely from those expressed in our forward-looking statements as a result of various risk factors, including, but not limited to: risks related to our assumptions regarding the repeatability of clinical results; risks related to our belief that Masimo's unique noninvasive measurement technologies, including Masimo LiDCO, Root, and rainbow SET, contribute to positive clinical outcomes and patient safety; risks related to our belief that Masimo noninvasive medical breakthroughs provide cost-effective solutions and unique advantages; risks related to COVID-19; as well as other factors discussed in the 'Risk Factors' section of our most recent reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ('SEC'), which may be obtained for free at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in our forward-looking statements are reasonable, we do not know whether our expectations will prove correct. All forward-looking statements included in this press release are expressly qualified in their entirety by the foregoing cautionary statements. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of today's date. We do not undertake any obligation to update, amend or clarify these statements or the 'Risk Factors' contained in our most recent reports filed with the SEC, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under the applicable securities laws.
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