In Brief: Utah Medical Products/Vital Signs Inc.
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Utah Medical Products/Vital Signs Inc.: Firms enter agreement under which Vital Signs will market Utah Medical's Deltran IV disposable blood pressure transducer (DPT) in the U.S. Manufactured via an automated process, the Deltran IV is a lower cost version of Utah Medical's hand-assembled Deltran II DPT, which is marketed in the U.S. by Baxter under the name Uniflow. The agreement follows Utah Medical's March announcement that it would seek new marketing partners for the Deltran line due to Baxter's decision to cut back its distribution of the Deltran II and to phase out distribution of Utah Medical's Summit DPT ("The Gray Sheet" March 11, I&W-7). The company notes that it may be nearing another marketing agreement for Deltran IV with a "significant medical monitoring equipment company in the U.S."...