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As a result of a cooperation agreement with the University of Michigan, NTE has lent a BFM7Scan unit to the UM’s Medical Centre, that will be used as a key measurement device in a research campaign on corporal fluid balance in patients requiring mechanical ventilation. Dr. Robert H. Barlett, director of the Surgical Critical Care Unit at this Centre and worldwide authority on these issues, selected NTE’s BFM 7Scan body fluid monitoring device due to its "performance accuracy and ability to provide useful information". BFM7Scan, already at the UM’s premises, is currently undergoing through some FDA-level checks before commencing the one-year planned clinical investigations.
The BFM7Scan is a device able to measure the corporal fluid distribution based on bioimpedance technology. BFM7Scan measures the extra cellular and intracellular body water contents, both as the total amount (Total Body Water) and as segmental (arms, legs, thorax, abdomen and head) distribution. It also measures the muscular composition in terms of fatty and lean body mass. |
