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Technology Innovator Award-Thermal Angel, a Tech Titan
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Since December 2000, Dallas-based Estill Medical Technologies, Inc. has been riding a tide of unprecedented growth driven by what Chief Operating Officer Jay Lopez calls "an amazingly simple innovation."
"When the body sustains a trauma, medical professionals typically induce fluid right away," he said. "If they're running fluid at a temperature less than the patient's core body temperature, they are causing fluid-induced hypothermia, which can be a life-threatening condition."
Estill developed a unique solution to the problem of fluid-induced hypothermia: a little white boxed called the Thermal Angel.
It's an automatic fluid-warmer that interrupts the flow of life-preserving IV between the bag and the patient's arm. The simple piece of technology checks the fluid's temperature at the rate of 5,000 times per second, keeping it at a steady 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
The Thermal Angel is particularly useful with children and infants, who are much more susceptible to fluid-induced hypothermia.
Heating up in less than 30 seconds, and carrying a proprietary battery technology, the Thermal Angel has proven to be tremendously useful in emergency rooms across the nation - and in the deserts of Iraq. Estill holds contracts with every branch of the U.S. military, including intelligence services such as the CIA.
"Since we invested in Estill in 2000, growth in all sectors has been tremendous," Lopez said. "We've accomplished something that, in the field, has never been accomplished before. That's a real value."
-Stephen C. Webster
October 5-11, 2007
Dallas Business Journal
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