Teleflex Inc sells catheters and pumps to Premier Purchasing Partners
Teleflex Incorporated, a leading global provider of medical devices for critical care and surgery, has announced a new agreement with Premier Purchasing Partners, L.P., the group purchasing unit of the Premier healthcare alliance.
Teleflex Incorporated (NYSE:TFX), a leading global provider of medical devices for critical care and surgery, has announced a new agreement with Premier Purchasing Partners, L.P., the group purchasing unit of the Premier healthcare alliance. The new agreement covers Teleflex Incorporated’s Arrow® brand of Intra-Aortic Balloon Catheters and Pumps (IABP). It begins November 1, 2011 and extends through October 31, 2014.
Arrow’s AutoCAT® 2 series of intra-aortic balloon pumps (IABPs), designed to meet the wide range of customer requirements and patient conditions, represent the most technologically advanced cardiac assist consoles on the market today. Used to support patients whose native or pharmacologically-assisted cardiac output is unable to meet the body’s tissue perfusion needs, Arrow’s balloon pump consoles offer full automaticity of the most critical functions, responding to changes in patient conditions to maintain the desired level of hemodynamic support.
The only console with the physiologically derived WAVE® algorithm, developed by physician scientists and peer-reviewed in professional medical journals, this system is designed to support the sickest of cardiac patients; those with fast and erratic heart rhythms as well as those patients with slow and regular heart rhythms. In one study, the AutoCAT 2 WAVE® IABP demonstrated a 98% accuracy rate in inflating the balloon catheter within several milliseconds of the target physiologic event.1 With one button start-up and full support initiated within 5 seconds, both physicians and clinicians can focus on the patient’s needs and not the support device’s function.
Offering a wide variety of intra-aortic balloon catheters (IAB), Arrow’s disposable catheter options range from firm to flexible catheter body construction with arterial pressure obtained from fiber optic or conventional transduced sources or both, depending on patient need and clinician preference. Catheters are available with multiple balloon volume sizes and catheter body sizes and can be placed with a sheath introducer or without, depending on the physician’s preference.
“Teleflex’s Cardiac Care team has a long history of working closely with physicians to provide products that help to improve patient outcomes,” said Howard Miller, President, Cardiac Care Division. “We welcome the opportunity to work with Premier members in bringing this critical therapy to their patients.”
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