Abbott Receives Three CES 2023 Innovation Awards for Developments in Well being Expertise

• The Shopper Expertise Affiliation (CTA) awards Abbott a number of CES 2023 Innovation Awards for industry-leading well being applied sciences
• Abbott’s Aveir™ single-chamber (VR) leadless pacemaker, Proclaim™ Plus SCS system, Alinity^® m Monkeypox PCR take a look at honored
• Different current Abbott innovation honors embody Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre^® expertise named one of the best medical expertise within the final 50 years by the Galien Basis

ABBOTT PARK, Ailing., Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Abbott (NYSE: ABT) has been acknowledged by the Shopper Expertise Affiliation (CTA) with three CES 2023 Innovation Awards for its life-changing applied sciences which can be advancing the well being tech {industry} and enhancing the lives of individuals worldwide. The CTA is the group behind the Shopper Electronics Present (CES), probably the most influential expertise occasion on the planet.

Forward of the CES 2023 occasion, three of Abbott’s industry-leading tech developments received CES 2023 Innovation Awards, all inside the Digital Well being award class:

• Aveir VR Leadless Pacemaker – The world’s solely leadless pacemaker with a singular mapping functionality to evaluate appropriate positioning previous to placement and designed to be utterly retrievable. The system was developed by Abbott to deal with sufferers with sluggish coronary heart rhythms and eliminates wires used to ship remedy in conventional pacemakers.
• Proclaim Plus SCS System – Abbott’s newest development in neurostimulation remedy to deal with power ache utilizing low doses of focused BurstDR™ stimulation that may be adjusted as an individual’s therapeutic wants evolve throughout as much as six areas of the physique, which is extra ache websites within the physique than ever earlier than.
• Alinity m Monkeypox PCR take a look at¹ – A primary of its sort, Abbott obtained FDA Emergency Use Authorization of its PCR take a look at for detecting the monkeypox virus.  

The CES Innovation Awards program is an annual competitors honoring excellent design and engineering in shopper expertise merchandise. This system acknowledges the 12 months’s most revolutionary merchandise in a large number of shopper expertise product classes and distinguishes the highest-rated in every.

Final 12 months, Abbott grew to become the first-ever healthcare firm to keynote CES, and the corporate has obtained 9 CES Innovation Awards up to now two years.

Different Abbott merchandise beforehand honored with CES Innovation Awards embody FreeStyle Libre 3², the world’s smallest, thinnest³ and most correct⁴ 14-day glucose sensor and a CES 2022 Better of Innovation Award winner; BinaxNOW™⁵, the #1 COVID-19 self take a look at within the U.S.; and the Ultreon^TM 1.0 intravascular imaging and coronary physiology software program platform, which helps information and optimize stenting choices, combining optical coherence tomography with synthetic intelligence.

Along with the CES 2023 awards, Abbott additionally was just lately acknowledged with different prime honors for its healthcare expertise together with its revolutionary FreeStyle Libre expertise being named one of the best medical expertise within the final 50 years by the Galien Basis. The FreeStyle Libre portfolio has remodeled the lives of roughly 4.5 million individuals⁶ dwelling with diabetes globally.

About Abbott

Abbott is a worldwide healthcare chief that helps individuals dwell extra totally in any respect levels of life. Our portfolio of life-changing applied sciences spans the spectrum of healthcare, with main companies and merchandise in diagnostics, medical units, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 113,000 colleagues serve individuals in additional than 160 international locations.

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¹ This product has not been FDA cleared or authorised, however has been licensed for emergency use by FDA beneath an EUA to be used by the licensed laboratories; This product has been licensed just for the detection of nucleic acid from monkeypox virus, not for another viruses or pathogens; The emergency use of this product is barely licensed throughout the declaration that circumstances exist justifying the authorization of emergency use of in vitro diagnostics for detection and/or prognosis of an infection with the monkeypox virus, together with in vitro diagnostics that detect and/or diagnose an infection with non-variola Orthopoxvirus, beneath Part 564(b)(1) of the Federal Meals, Drug, and Beauty Act, 21 U.S.C. § 360bbb-3(b)(1), except the declaration is terminated or authorization is revoked sooner.
² Indications and Essential Security Data: FreeStyle Libre 3 system: Failure to make use of the FreeStyle Libre 3 system as instructed in labeling might lead to lacking a extreme low or excessive glucose occasion and/or making a therapy determination, leading to harm. If glucose alarms and readings don’t match signs or expectations, use a fingerstick worth from a blood glucose meter for therapy choices. Search medical consideration when applicable or contact Abbott at 855-632-8658 or FreeStyleLibre.us for security information.
³ Amongst patient-applied sensors.
⁴ Information on file, Abbott Diabetes Care. Comparability based mostly on publicly obtainable info.
⁵ The BinaxNOW™ COVID-19 Antigen Self Take a look at is a lateral stream immunoassay supposed for the qualitative detection of nucleocapsid protein antigen from SARS-CoV-2 from people with or with out signs or different epidemiological causes to suspect COVID-19 an infection when examined twice over three days with at the very least 24 hours (and not more than 48 hours) between exams. This take a look at is permitted for non-prescription residence use with self-collected direct anterior nasal (nares) swab samples from people aged 15 years or older or grownup collected anterior nasal (nares) swab samples from people aged two years or older.
The BinaxNOW™ COVID-19 exams haven’t been FDA cleared or authorised. They’ve been licensed by the FDA beneath an emergency use authorization. They’ve been licensed just for the detection of proteins from SARS-CoV-2, not for another viruses or pathogens, and are solely licensed throughout the declaration that circumstances exist justifying the authorization of emergency use of in vitro diagnostics for detection and/or prognosis of COVID-19 beneath Part 564(b)(1) of the Federal Meals, Drug and Beauty Act, 21 U.S.C. § 360bbb-3(b)(1), except the declaration is terminated or authorization is revoked sooner. For serial testing, the BinaxNOW COVID-19 Antigen Assessments must be carried out twice over 3 days, at the very least 24 hours (and not more than 48 hours) aside. For symptomatic use, a single take a look at can be utilized.
⁶ Information on file, Abbott Diabetes Care. Information based mostly on the variety of customers worldwide for the FreeStyle Libre portfolio in comparison with the variety of customers for different main private use, sensor-based glucose monitoring methods.

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