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June 6, 2006
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COMPVIEW MEDICAL ANNOUNCES CONVERSION OF OPERATING ROOMS AT HOSPITAL WHERE MECHANICAL HEART FIRST BEAT
Project Validates NuBOOM’s Ergonomic, Speed and Total Cost AdvantagesBEAVERTON, ORE. - June 26, 2006 - CompView Medical, a leading provider of integrated audio-visual systems for medical environments, today announced the completion of its second weekend installation of a NuBOOM, the company’s premier product, at Detroit Medical Center’s Harper University Hospital. Completion of this project further confirms the company’s mounting growth and geographic penetration, as well as its industry leadership in converting operating rooms (ORs) to Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) suites, through unprecedented speed of installation and pricing.
CompView Medical installed both NuBOOMs in single weekends, enabling the Detroit Medical Center’s Harper University Hospital to avoid disruption and maintain a busy OR schedule. The NuBOOM transforms outmoded general surgery operating rooms into modern MIS suites that improve patient and staff safety. For the surgeon, NuBOOM enhances physical, cognitive and perceptive ergonomics during MIS operations while at the same time providing visual connectivity to patient data. These installations are CompView Medical’s first to be completed in the Midwest and are at the front end of a pipeline of 10-plus operating room conversions planned during the next quarter in other regions of the country.
Harper University Hospital, which has operating rooms built in the mid 1950’s and was the site of the first historic use of a mechanical heart during open heart surgery, is like much of the aging hospital infrastructure across America. Their operating rooms were built long before the advent of MIS, and while the new methods provide better outcomes to patients such as faster recovery periods, they also pose challenges unforeseen when the ORs were originally built. When Harper University Hospital was conducting the world’s first mechanically assisted open heart procedure in 1952, OR staff and architects could not have anticipated having to accommodate the myriad of diagnostic and therapeutic equipment used today. The space this required has created a crowded, ergonomically unfriendly operating room. Harper didn’t have the luxury of enlarging existing operating rooms because doing so would have reduced the total number of procedure rooms and required very expensive and disruptive remodeling.
CompView Medical and Harper University Hospital
In addition to the NuBOOM’s rapid installation capability, it also reduces the total cost of a remodeling project. "We selected NuBOOM because it was affordable and the weekend installation did not disrupt scheduling of our operating rooms,” said Anna Basden registered nurse and corporate director operating room process improvement for Detroit Medical Center and director of surgical services for Harper University Hospital/Kresege Eye Institute.
CompView Medical entered the MIS market in 2005 seizing as its opportunity the burgeoning need for better solutions to bring MIS visualization technologies to the OR. NuBOOM directly challenged industry standards on a number of levels. Installation of boom systems exceeded 30 days at that time and generally required some degree of remodeling, while NuBOOM installed in less than three days with no remodeling. NuBOOM delivered MIS suite capability at one-fourth of the cost associated with upgrading an OR suite with ceiling mounted booms because there is no requirement for overhead structural work.
Based upon experience gained using their first NuBOOM, Harper University realized a second benefit that cemented the decision to acquire another – the NuBOOM made long surgical procedures more comfortable and ergonomically friendly for the surgeon.
"During a Minimally Invasive Surgery procedure such as Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy, the video display placement on NuBOOM is far more comfortable and ergonomically correct for the surgeon than the body mechanics required to view images on a video carts. The multiplicity of displays also greatly enriches the learning experience of the resident surgeons,” said Dr. Donald Weaver, MD, FACS and professor of surgery at Wayne State University and staff surgeon at Harper University Hospital.
“CompView Medical was thrilled to have the opportunity to mark its first Midwest installation within a hospital with the history of leadership and medical innovation in patient care,” said Paul White, founder and president of CompView Medical. “Successful projects like this further stimulate our team’s resolve to continue to lead the industry in product value and innovation.”
About CompView Medical
Beaverton, Oregon-based CompView Medical (www.compviewmedical.com) is a private, wholly owned subsidiary of CompView Inc. specializing in the design and integration of audio-visual systems with proven success for medical environments including ORs, exam rooms and medical consultation areas. CompView Medical is built upon its parent company's nearly 20 years of technology expertise specializing in systems integration and group communication within the rapidly emerging audiovisual and group medical communications marketplace.
