LIST OF COMPANIES TAKEN TO MARKET
Q: What do the following companies have in common?
| St. Jude Medical (mechanical heart valve) IMED (volumetric pumps) Level I Intelligent Medical (tympanic thermometry) Howmedica (ortho implants) Xomed (ENT products) SciMed (membrane oxygenators) Cobe (disposable transducers) A.E. Medical (pacing wires) |
Electromedics (temperature probes) Pall Corporation (patient protection filters) Dyna Map (non-invasive blood pressure) Ballard Medical (closed tracheal suctioning) Nellcor (pulse oximetry) Origin Augustine Medical (patient warming systems) Valleylab (solid state elctrosurgery) Mitek (soft tissue reattachment anchor) |
A: They are
among the most successful companies in health care. |