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Monday, February 07, 2005
Yahoo! Finance
Gish Cardiopulmonary Bypass Equipment Used in Pioneering Transfusion-free Surgery
Monday February 7, 9:30 am ET
WILMINGTON, Mass., Feb. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CardioTech International, Inc. (Amex: CTE - News) today announced that the Vision (TM) Cardiopulmonary Bypass (CPB) equipment is being used at Fountain Valley Regional Hospital and Medical Center in Orange County, which has one of the nation's oldest transfusion-free surgery programs.
The Vision (TM) CBP Equipment is manufactured and sold by Gish Biomedical, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of CardioTech. The Vision CBP includes oxygenators, reservoirs, filters and Cardioplegia units, which are now considered mainstream components in transfusion-free surgeries specifically targeted to Jehovah's Witnesses who adhere to a biblical admonition against receiving blood.
