Protectus Medical Devices Exclusive Interview for the Interlinked Investment News Channel on InterlinkedTV
(PRWEB) January 22, 2014 -- Protectus Medical Devices was one of the presenting companies interviewed at the recent FSXinterlinked Investment Conference, held at the Ritz Carlton in Marina Del Rey, California.
Protectus Medical Devices, Inc., a public, development-stage company, is engaged in the design, engineering, and manufacture of safety needle devices to protect healthcare workers worldwide from millions of accidental needle stick injuries annually, as well as to obviate billions of dollars in resulting healthcare costs every year. The Company primarily offers the patented-protected, automatic, self-sheathing Protectus Safety Syringe, a safety hypodermic syringe that is intended for general use. The device has received 510(K) permission from the US FDA to be marketed and sold in the US.
During the interview Protectus Medical Devices President & CEO, John Salstrom, said, "Needle stick injuries are a very frequent event in the United States, actually all over the world. Of the 8 billion syringes sold in the US every year, approximately 1 and a half million end up causing needle stick injuries."
Mr.Salstrom added, "If the needle has been in a patient that has some blood born disease and therefore is contaminated with fluids from that patient; and you then inject yourself by accident or somebody else injects themselves by accident, they could contract that disease. And, in fact, that happens tens of thousand of times per year and results in hundreds of deaths each year."
The needle stick injury problem is huge in the United States. Although there are federal and state laws requiring safety syringes be used, all of the devices that are out there require the user to intentionally perform a manual action to deploy the safety feature. The Protectus Medical Devices safety needle device is automatic. When the user gives an injection, a sheath snaps down over the needle and renders the device safe.
The interview was conducted by FSXinterlinked Investment Conference Host, Michael Fugler, and is available on the FSXinterlinked channel on InterlinkedTV. More information is available at Protectus Medical Devices' Public Profile on Interlinked.com.
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Delray Wannemacher, FSXinterlinked, http://www.fsxinterlinked.com, +1 (281) 940-1555, [email protected]
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