Abbott Receives Three CES 2023 Innovation Awards for Developments in Well being Know-how

• The Client Know-how 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 check 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 Client Know-how Affiliation (CTA) with three CES 2023 Innovation Awards for its life-changing applied sciences which might be advancing the well being tech {industry} and enhancing the lives of individuals worldwide. The CTA is the group behind the Client Electronics Present (CES), probably the most influential expertise occasion on this 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 novel 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 persistent 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 check¹ – A primary of its sort, Abbott acquired FDA Emergency Use Authorization of its PCR check 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 yr’s most revolutionary merchandise in a large number of shopper expertise product classes and distinguishes the highest-rated in every.

Final yr, Abbott turned the first-ever healthcare firm to keynote CES, and the corporate has acquired 9 CES Innovation Awards previously 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 check within the U.S.; and the Ultreon^TM 1.0 intravascular imaging and coronary physiology software program platform, which helps information and optimize stenting selections, combining optical coherence tomography with synthetic intelligence.

Along with the CES 2023 awards, Abbott additionally was not too long ago acknowledged with different high 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 reworked the lives of roughly 4.5 million individuals⁶ residing with diabetes globally.

About Abbott

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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 every other viruses or pathogens; The emergency use of this product is simply licensed in the course of 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), until the declaration is terminated or authorization is revoked sooner.
² Indications and Essential Security Info: FreeStyle Libre 3 system: Failure to make use of the FreeStyle Libre 3 system as instructed in labeling could 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 selections. Search medical consideration when applicable or contact Abbott at 855-632-8658 or FreeStyleLibre.us for security data.
³ Amongst patient-applied sensors.
⁴ Knowledge on file, Abbott Diabetes Care. Comparability based mostly on publicly out there data.
⁵ The BinaxNOW™ COVID-19 Antigen Self Check is a lateral stream immunoassay meant 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 not less than 24 hours (and not more than 48 hours) between assessments. This check is permitted for non-prescription house 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 assessments 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 every other viruses or pathogens, and are solely licensed in the course of 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), until the declaration is terminated or authorization is revoked sooner. For serial testing, the BinaxNOW COVID-19 Antigen Checks needs to be carried out twice over 3 days, not less than 24 hours (and not more than 48 hours) aside. For symptomatic use, a single check can be utilized.
⁶ Knowledge on file, Abbott Diabetes Care. Knowledge 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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