Caudwell Xtreme Everest团队已经从珠穆朗玛峰峰顶考察归来，并已开始着手分析他们在极端海拔高度下采集的数据，以期改善对重症监护患者的治疗。

SunTech Medical与Cortex Biophysik GmbH合作，为Caudwell Xtreme Everest团队提供了无创血压（OEM NIBP）检测技术，以便在一系列高海拔实验室内测量极端训练条件下的血压状况。该团队希望利用珠穆朗玛峰上类似的低氧环境复制重症监护患者所遇到的低氧状况。他们认为自己的发现可以在很多生命攸关的情况下帮助改进对患者的治疗护理。

Xtreme Everest团队在训练过程中进行了各种测试，其中包括使用Cortex公司提供的MetaLyzer®心肺练习系统进行的测试。SunTech Medical为MetaLyzer系统提供了OEM 无创血压（OEM NIBP）检测技术，以便在条件苛刻的极端应力及练习状况下准确、可靠地测量血压。

Caudwell Xtreme Everest团队的研究副主管Denny Levett说：“在Caudwell Xtreme Everest考察活动中，我们使用了SunTech的无创血压（OEM NIBP）检测系统。在温度低达摄氏零下25度、海拔高达6400米的极端苛刻的环境条件下，该系统表现得十分出色。我们使用NIBP监测技术成功地实施了1787次练习测试，没有损坏任何系统。”

其中的许多测试从未在上述海拔高度下实施过，它们应该能够为考察队提供更多低血氧条件下大脑氧供应状况的相关信息。这些结果有望帮助医生了解患者对低氧水平如何作出反应，从而有助于改进危急病症的治疗护理。SunTech Medical无疑会支持这一研究目标，并且对Cortex Biophysik公司与Caudwell Xtreme Everest团队为实现这一目标而选择SunTech Medical的产品作为他们的血压技术解决方案，感到十分骄傲。

Caudwell Xtreme Everest项目由UCL海拔、空间及极端环境医学中心（CASE）协调实施。如欲了解更多资讯，请访问www.xtreme-everest.co.uk。

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SunTech Medical的OEM 血压监测技术得到许多世界领先的患者监护与去纤颤设备制造商的应用。其服务技术涉及特殊的患者护理环境及条件，包括患者运送（救护车、直升机、活动推床）、患者活动（震颤与痉挛）以及特殊的病患群体（透析患者、新生儿与儿科患者，乃至兽医学上的应用）。

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( BW)(NC-SUNTECH-MEDICAL) Update: Xtreme Everest Takes SunTech Medical OEM NIBP to the Top of the World

    SunTech Medical's Blood Pressure Technology (OEM NIBP) Provides Xtreme Everest with Vital Blood Pressure Data

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    MORRISVILLE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 21, 2008--The Caudwell Xtreme Everest Team has returned from their expedition to the peak of Mount Everest and has begun reviewing data collected at extreme altitudes in hopes to improve treatment for intensive care patients.

    SunTech Medical, in co-operation with Cortex Biophysik GmbH, provided the Caudwell Xtreme Everest team with non-invasive blood pressure (OEM NIBP) technology for measuring blood pressure during extreme exercise at a series of high-altitude laboratories. The team hoped to replicate the low oxygen levels that intensive care patients encounter with the similarly low oxygen levels on Mount Everest. They believe their findings may help improve patient care for a number of life-threatening conditions.

    The Xtreme Everest team performed tests during exercise that included assessment with the MetaLyzer(R) cardiopulmonary exercise system from Cortex. SunTech Medical provides OEM non-invasive blood pressure technology (OEM NIBP) for the MetaLyzer system to accurately and reliably obtain blood pressure measurements under the demanding conditions of stress and exercise.

    "We used the SunTech non-invasive blood pressure (OEM NIBP) system on the Caudwell Xtreme Everest Expedition. The system performed very well in extremely harsh environmental conditions in temperatures as low as -25 degrees Celsius and at altitudes of up to 6400 metres. We successfully carried out 1787 exercise tests with NIBP monitoring without damaging any of the systems," says Denny Levett, Deputy Research Leader Caudwell Xtreme Everest.

    Many of these tests had never before been done at these altitudes and should provide the team with more information about oxygen supply to the brain under conditions of low blood oxygen levels. The results are expected to help physicians understand how patients react to low oxygen levels and lead to improved care for the critically ill. SunTech Medical certainly supports this goal and is proud that Cortex Biophysik and the Caudwell Xtreme Everest Team chose SunTech Medical as their blood pressure solution in pursuit of that goal.

    Caudwell Xtreme Everest Project is coordinated by the UCL Center for Altitude, Space and Extreme environment medicine (CASE). For more information, please visit www.xtreme-everest.co.uk.

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    SunTech Medical's OEM blood pressure technology is used by many of the world's leading patient monitoring and defibrillator equipment manufacturers. Offerings include technologies for particular patient environments and conditions including patient transport (ambulance, helicopter, or gurney), patient motion (tremors and spasms) and specific patient populations (dialysis, neo-natal, pediatric, or veterinarian).

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