EchoSure from Sonavex Inc. is designed to provide reliable, early detection of thrombosis, coupled with an excellent device safety profile, by detecting changes in blood flow using Doppler ultrasound.

EchoSure from Sonavex Inc. is designed to provide reliable, early detection of thrombosis, coupled with an excellent device safety profile, by detecting changes in blood flow using Doppler ultrasound.

Recipharm, a contract development and manufacturing organisation, has appointed Franco Boselli business director in Italy and Bernard Pluta general manager for the operating company in Pessac, France. Prior to joining Recipharm, Boselli worked in marketing and sales in Italian pharmaceutical companies and was previously business development director at Biologici Italia Laboratories. Before this he was business development manager in an Italian CMO, Mipharm. Pluta has previously held executive positions in Theramex and Teva and currently runs his own CMO consultancy business.

Manufacturers of patient monitoring equipment are responding to a challenging hospital environment. They're providing advanced portable and telemetry monitoring systems that enable the continuous monitoring of critically ill patients, regardless of their location within the hospital, and often at a lower cost than could be achieved using traditional bedside systems. Portable and telemetry systems are two of the highest growth segments in the US patient monitoring market, according to Windhover Information/Medtech Insight's recently published report, US Markets for Patient Monitoring Products, which forecasts compound annual growth rates (CAGR) of 8.5% and 13.0%, respectively, in these segments through 2012.