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Utilizing PVDF material allows us to continually innovate and produce quick response, sensitive and accurate sensors for respiratory airflow and effort detection
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Company
Dymedix Diagnostics
Headquarters
Shoreview, MN
Management
Jim Moore, President
Description
Dymedix Diagnostic offers an exclusive line of physiological sensors based on a technology called polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) specifically designed for the sleep medicine industry. PVDF is a unique polarized plastic film that delivers very fast and reliable signals when it is excited by movement, pressure, vibration and temperature change. This technology allows for the detection of sleep disorders like apneas, hypopneas, UARS, snoring and respiratory effort, all provided in disposable and reusable sensor options. Dymedix's patented PVDF technology provides accurate, reliable and consistent PSG data with the least amount of testing procedure disruption
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Historically, sleep testing centers have relied upon reusable sensors to measure the amount of effort in a patient’s respiration, usually from belts around the chest and abdomen. Belts and sensors had to be put through a careful cleaning process to ensure that they would not cause the spread of potential infection from one patient to the next. With the recent emphasis on infection control procedures by the Joint Commission (JCAHO) in accreditation of sleep testing facilities, pressure has increased for better practices and options to avoid this issue.
Semi-disposable options have been available for a number of years, but would still rely upon a reusable sensor that made contact with the patient’s body. Only the belting material was disposable with these systems. These were therefore better options than what came before, but still held a potential for cross contamination. Dymedix Diagnostics has developed the first system to dispose of the entire testing system including both the belts and the sensors.
The FastTrack Effort Pack comes in a pre-packaged bag from the manufacturer to be opened only at the time of testing. The belts can be cut to the specific length required for a given patient and then used with any current sleep diagnostic testing system. Dymedix Diagnostics fully expects robust interest in the FastTrack solution across the entire sleep diagnostic field, and particularly with pediatric and high risk groups.
Keywords: Dymedix Diagnostics, FastTrack, respiratory, respiratory effort, effort belts, disposable, semi-disposable, single use, infection, disinfection, infection control, the Joint Commission, JCAHO, pediatric, high risk, cut to fit, sleep, sleep diagnostic, polyvinylidene fluoride, PVDF.