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„LIFEBRIDGE Hospitality Suite” while the 40. World Forum for Medicine, Düsseldorf Fair
November 20 & 21, 2008
By invitation only, informal registration via info@lifebridge.de.
75th patient successfully supported with the LIFEBRIDGE B2T®
Jena - Germany, July 22nd, 2008 – The team around Professor Figulla and Dr. Ferrari was able to stabilize a 88-year old female patient fast and safe to perform a required medical treatment. The system took over the complete function of heart and lung and provided the team sufficient time to complete the patient's treatment under stable conditions. Shortly thereafter the patient was weaned from the LIFEBRIDGE B2T® and transferred without any complication to the ward. The university clinic of the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität in Jena (Klinik für Innere Medizin I) is deeply in the development of the system involved and belongs to the most experienced user of this life-saving technology. The LIFEBRIDGE B2T® is already in more than 20 hospitals present and can therefore reach more and more of the heartpatients in serious need of this unique technology.
reddot design award 2008 for the LIFEBRIDGE B2T®! – http://en.red-dot.org/design.html
Essen, Germany ,May 2008 – With its outstanding and innovative design, the Product LIFEBRIDGE B2T® succeeded in one of the most renowned and hardest international design competitions worldwide. In the red dot award: product design competition the system was awarded the “red dot” quality seal for high design quality by the top-class expert jury. This award is only conferred to particularly creative, innovative, and high-quality products. In total 3,203 products from 51 nations faced the expert judgement this year. The festive awards presentation with more than 1,000 guests will take place on 23 June 2008 in the Essen Opera House, the Aalto Theatre.
The exhibition of the winning products in the red dot design museum
Together with the other award-winning products, the LIFEBRIDGE B2T® will be on display from 24 June to 27 July 2008 in the exhibition “Design on stage – winners red dot award: product design 2008” at the red dot design museum on the premises of the ‘Zeche Zollverein’ World Cultural Heritage Site. With approximately 1,500 products on more than 4,000 square metres, the red dot design museum houses the largest permanent exhibition of contemporary design worldwide.
50th patient on LIFEBRIDGE B2T®!
Chieti, Italy, Thursday, April 10th 2008 – An interdisciplinary doctors' team of cardiac surgeons, cardiologists and anaesthesists was able to successfully complete the medical treatment of an 80-year old female patient in Chieti (Italy) under full support of LIFEBRIDGE B2T®. The complicated procedure took approximately 2.5 hours; during an episode of acute cardiac arrest the system fully replaced heart and lung function and gave the team sufficient time to complete the patient's treatment under stable conditions. Shortly thereafter the patient was weaned from the LIFEBRIDGE B2T® and transferred without any complication to the ward.
This 50th case clearly demonstrates that LIFEBRIDGE B2T® meets the same high acceptance outside Germany and reaches more and more of the heartpatients in serious need of the technology.
iF PRODUCT DESIGN AWARD for the LIFEBRIDGE B2T® – http://www.ifdesign.de
Hannover, 28. November 2007 – The iF product design award is one of the world’s oldest, best-known design competitions. The international jury of experts bestowed an iF product design award on 821 competition entries out of 2,771 entries this year. All winners will receive an iF seal of design excellence, which remains valid for the entire product lifecycle. The 2008 installment of the iF product design award took place for the 54th time.
Record number of entries, but strict adjudication criteria for iF product design awards 2008: Jury of 26 experts reduces ratio of winners by 3.3%.
Adjudicating the annual iF product design competition is always hard work. Over an intensive, two-day period, experts from various disciplines are involved in examining and evaluating the competing entries in several adjudication rounds. In his introductory remarks to the international group of jurors this year, longtime jury chairperson Fritz Frenkler (f/p design/TU Munich) spoke about the iF criteria for high-quality design:
“Our jurors have always had a difficult task because they need to be able to recognize whether an enterprise has kept its promises in terms of its products and brands.”
The “iF product design awards 2008” competition attracted 2,771 entries in all — 20.9% more than in 2007, while a total of 821 awards were issued — a 3.3% lower ratio of winners than in 2007.
On the “09. Medicine Health+Care” category:
“In this category we saw products which not only can improve, but also save lives. What they all have in common is their appropriateness. The award-winning products were appropriate in their purpose, their deployment, their environment and the atmosphere they created.”
(Kristiina Lassus, Jury Member)
1st portable heart-lung machine
by Holger Zorn
Lifebridge is the first portable heart-lung machine which promises a great success for the clinlical use.
Lifebridge, reported as the first portable heart lung machine, and presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Cardiovascular Engineering last month, provides instant haemodynamic stabilisation for patients suffering from cardiogenic shock. The machine is attached percutaneously via femoral vessels to the patient. Afterwards, air elimination of the heart-lung machine is performed automatically. Due to the integrated oxygenator, Lifebridge, unlike conventional cardiac assist devices, can fully take over the functions of the heart and lung.
In animal testing, adequate flow rates and gas exchange were demonstrated under simulated transport conditions.
The first clinical use is planned for later this year. The developer, a German start-up headquartered in Munich, hope for similar successful results. Lifebridge will become particularly interesting when safe and reproducible out-of-hospital use has been proven because, in many cases, it is the lack of oxygen supply between the event and a cardiological or cardiosurgical intervention that causes irreversible organ damage - and sudden cardiac arrest can happen to anyone, anywhere and any time.
For further information visit www.european-hospital.com.
