Masimo Corporation, the innovator of Signal Extraction Pulse Oximetry, has been selected as winner in the 2001 Medical Design Excellence Awards (MDEA) competition for Masimo's recently released Signal Extraction Technology™ Pulse Oximeter, Radical™. The MDEA is the only awards program devoted exclusively to recognizing contributions and advancements in the design of medical products. MDEA-winning products excel in the areas of product innovation, design and engineering excellence, end-user benefit, and cost-effectiveness in manufacturing and healthcare delivery.
An impartial, multi-disciplinary panel of third-party jurors reviews all products submitted. These jurors have expertise in biomedical engineering, human factors, industrial design, medicine, nursing, diagnostics, and medical packaging. Winners are selected in ten medical product categories. Radical was selected as a winner in the division of Critical Care and Emergency Products.
Radical Signal Extraction Pulse Oximeter is three pulse oximeters in one: a standalone device for bedside monitoring, a detachable handheld pulse oximeter for portable monitoring or spot check, and with its rich interface options, including SatShare™, provides an upgrade path for the conventional pulse oximetry technologies found in hospital patient monitors to Masimo SET® performance.
Radical incorporates a new version of Masimo SET® software, V3™, which not only delivers the breakthrough motion and low perfusion performance of Masimo SET®, but debuts FastSat™, which allows pulse oximeters to accurately track rapid saturation changes with unprecedented fidelity. Radical also debuts Signal IQ™, a unique visual indication that identifies the arterial pulse and quality of the acquired signal even under conditions of motion and low perfusion.
“Radical, is the most advanced pulse oximeter in the world, yet it is simple to use,” said Joe E. Kiani, President and Chief Executive Officer of Masimo Corporation. “Clinicians from around the world contributed to the design of Radical by challenging our engineers to take the Masimo SET® engine and design a pulse oximeter body around it that would make it available to all of their patients in all of the environments they were currently using conventional pulse oximetry or couldn't due to the limitations of conventional pulse oximeters. They also wanted one intuitive user interface for all of their applications, whether they were doing spot-check hand-held pulse oximetry measurement or continuous bedside monitoring in the OR, ICU or Ward.”
Mr. Kiani continued, “Due to the requirements and feedback by our clinical advisory group, and the ingenuity and hard work of our engineers, clinicians around the world can now benefit from Masimo SET®'s unprecedented sensitivity and specificity for all their patients in all of the environments they choose; all with one intuitive user interface. We thank MDEA for this recognition, as well as, the many clinician advisors, our engineering team and the industrial design team of I.N. for creating Radical.”
