Daxor Announces Tripler Army Medical Center of Honolulu, HI Acquires BVA-100 Blood Volume Analyzer
Daxor Corporation (AMEX: DXR), a medical instrumentation and biotechnology company, today announced the receipt of a signed trial agreement from Tripler Army Medical Center of Honolulu, Hawaii.
Tripler Army Medical Center (TAMC) is the headquarters of the Pacific Regional Medical Command of the armed forces administered by the United States Army. It is the largest military hospital in the Asian and Pacific Rim with a 1,000-bed capacity, serving 52 percent of the world’s globe. During a single day of operations, TAMC personnel tend to 2,248 clinic and 110 emergency room visits. Tripler is a premier military health and education center that provides safe, high quality care and service to all beneficiaries they serve. Through continued education and training, Tripler’s staff’s commitment to readiness and the needs of those they serve sets the standards for quality, access and efficiency to the best medical care available for active-duty service members of all branches of service; their eligible families; military-eligible retirees and their families; eligible veterans; and many Pacific Island Nation residents.
Daxor’s Blood Volume Analyzer will be based in the Department of Nuclear Medicine and primarily utilized by the Critical Care Unit under Medical Director Dr. Eric Crawley. Dr. Douglas Prager, Chief of Nuclear Medicine, stated that “A measured blood volume will afford an additional level of care to our patients that may require the additional diagnosis provided by a semi-automated blood volume analyzer.” Daxor’s Blood Volume Analyzer BVA-100 is the only FDA approved diagnostic device which provides for a semi-automated 98% accurate measurement of blood volume.
Other nationally renowned hospitals which have purchased the BVA-100 Blood Volume Analyzer after using it on a clinical trial basis are The Mayo Clinic, The Cleveland Clinic, and New York University Medical Center. Daxor Corporation manufactures and markets the BVA-100. The BVA-100 is used in conjunction with Volumex, Daxor’s single use diagnostic kit. For more information regarding Daxor Corporation’s Blood Volume Analyzer BVA-100, visit Daxor’s website www.Daxor.com.
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SOURCE: Daxor Corp.