Ambu (CPH:AMBU-B) today said it received Health Canada clearance for its aScope 4 Cysto single-use cystoscope. The cystoscope is a flexible, single-use endoscope that is designed to eliminate significant capital, repair and cleaning costs with a patient-ready instrument for every procedure, according to Ambu. The device is used for diagnosing, managing and treating lower urinary disorders […]
Ambu
Ambu single-use endoscope wins Frost & Sullivan innovation award
Frost & Sullivan today announced that it awarded Ambu with a 2021 Global New Product Innovation Award. Ambu received the award for its single-use flexible endoscopes that are designed to make the devices safe, affordable and accessible. It has aView and aBox all-in-one video displays that eliminate the traditional video endoscopy tower size and expense to be […]
Ambu expands single-use endoscopy contracts with GPOs
Ambu (CPH:AMBU-B) announced today that it has secured national single-use endoscopy contract expansions with two major U.S. group purchasing organizations (GPOs). Ballerup, Denmark–based Ambu is now on contract with all four major GPOs in the U.S. Customers served by the GPOs now have access to either a full or partial portfolio of single-use endoscopy categories. […]
5 innovations to make duodenoscopes more single-use — and save lives
Duodenoscopes are important medical devices that are used for endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) procedures. However, the devices have had serious problems in the past. Luckily, several medical device companies have stepped in to solve the problems. (Here are five of the innovations.) Duodenoscopes are flexible, lighted tubes threaded through the mouth, throat and stomach into the […]
The 10 most popular DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast episodes of 2020
Without the ability to gather for events and meetings, the DeviceTalks team launched the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast to keep our medtech community talking. Over the span of 9 months and 39 episodes, we interviewed dozens of medtech leaders from startups to multinational corporations to hear how they’re managing through the challenges of 2020. Our episodes […]
Ambu, Xenecor ink purchasing deals for for single-use scopes
Ambu and Xenocor over the past week each announced agreements with U.S. healthcare purchasing groups involving single-use scopes. Ambu said on October 7 that it won a national single-use endoscopy contract in the single-use endoscope category of a “major U.S. group-purchasing organization.” The deal enables Ambu to serve a fifth of the acute care hospitals […]
Ambu, Boston Sci execs see domination for single-use scopes
Hospital closures connected to COVID-19 have cut into the sales of many medical device companies, but executives at rival makers of single-use scopes say pandemic has only heightened existing concerns about contamination, exposure and cost. In interviews in this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, executives from Ambu A/S and Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) said improved technology make […]
Ambu lands national single-use endoscope contract
Ambu announced that it was awarded a single-use endoscopy contract in the category of surgical disposable scopes with Premier Inc. Columbia, Md.-based Ambu said in a news release that it was also the only supplier of single-use endoscopes designated to participate in Premier’s Surpass and Ascend purchasing programs. The three-year agreement creates a single-use endoscopy […]
FDA clears Ambu single-use duodenoscope
Ambu announced today that FDA has cleared its aScope Duodeno — a sterile, single-use duodenoscope meant to avoid the deadly superbug outbreaks that cropped up around reusable versions of the scopes. Other companies — including Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX), Hoya’s (TYO:7741) Pentax subsidiary, and Olympus (TYO:7733) — have been releasing either fully disposable duodenoscopes or duodenoscopes with disporable endcaps […]
Ambu, Fuel Medical ink partnership deal
Ambu announced that it entered into a partnership with Fuel Medical Group to combine marketing and strategy with the latter’s endoscope technologies. Under the agreement, Columbia, Md.-based Ambu is set to offer Fuel Medical marketing, finance, digital strategy, development and recruiting services. In return, Camas, Wash.-based Fuel Medical will offer its single-use endoscopes, which include […]
Ambu to launch single-use endoscopy device
Ambu announced today that it will launch its Ambu aView 2 Advance display unit for use with endoscopes in Europe and the U.S. Denmark-based Ambu received CE Mark and FDA approval to market its portable, full-HD unit that combines with single-use endoscopes across multiple clinical areas. The Ambu aView 2 Advance connects with Ambu’s aScope […]
