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Researchers in London, Ont., are the first in the world to use a new device for feeding tube insertion that can improve patient safety and reduce the cost of health-care services.

A team from Lawson Health Research Institute has partnered with CoapTech LLC, a medical device company, to study the use of the PUMA-G System.

In October of last year, the medical and research teams were the first in the world to use the device when they inserted a feeding tube into a 76-year-old Sar

CoapTech LLC announced today that the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded the company a two-year, $1.2M R44 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant on August 29, 2019. This builds on a $225,000 Phase I SBIR R43 grant and a $200,000 Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) grant awarded to the company last year.

The new $1.2M grant will support a 40-patient clinical trial at the

CoapTech, Inc, a medical device company focused on delivering transformative solutions for minimally-invasive surgery, announced today it has received CE Mark certification, as well as an approved CPT Procedure Code for its PUMA-G System, the world`s first and only ultrasound gastrostomy system that allows physicians to place gastrostomy tubes at the point of care, using solely ultrasound imaging.

The PUMA System™ is a new category of minimally invasive devices, e

CoapTech Inc. announced today that the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded CoapTech a two-year, $1.6M R44 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant on September 22, 2020 to finalize development of and trial its Pediatric PUMA-G System. This new grant builds on a prior $225,000 Phase I SBIR R43 grant completed earlier this year to prototyp

The novel human coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), continues to infect naïve populations causing surges of critically ill patients who can survive their acute critical illness. Tracheostomy and gastrostomy are commonly paired procedures that bridge patients from their acute to subacute critical illness. Both are aerosolgenerating procedures that can result in provider contamination and infection. We report new methods to create safer practice for p