http://www.healio.com/orthopedics/infection/news/print/orthopedics-today/%7B6544192d-0d7e-4a65-a17d-f03fb95740b2%7D/inability-to-recognize-power-failures-in-npwt-devices-may-have-caused-wound-complications I just ran in to a case where a wound center said this guy from Equinox Medical is going around saying our pumps have a higher that 10% failure rate and referenced the attached article. Where are our lawyers when we need them. This is not an acurate sample of our pumps and SHOULD NOT be allowed. I also heard that Equinox is some rinky dink NPWT that was marketing non-FDA approved Pumps and Kits for a while and was not appoved for Medicare approval but naturally was marketing the whole think under the radar. The old KCI would have knocked this guy out of the market a while back.
Where the f are our lawyers? This report is bogus and should be pulled before our competitors starts using it. Where is the data? Bury this POS no-name pump/punk
are you kidding me? the obvious response should be that actually that failure rate include user error (which it obviously does) and that KCI will provide backup units on site or service visits asap if needed. But let's get real. Most of the failures are not device related but because of a faulty dressing application. JMHO. Disclaimer: I don't work there any more.
I wonder how much marketing equinox medical had spent to compete with KCI, Smith and Nephew and Medela. I've been hearing about Equinox Medical for over ten years now and they don't seem like a big player in the wound care market.
This DB uses the NPWT Linked In Group to promote his POS Pump. I have heard its awful. Dude looks like a dork too on the group.
the article was written by a Smith and Nephew Blogger..KCI is going down because they've been hiring dumb ass sales people and have the feeling of entitlement. Get off the chat room and start selling!
Unfortunately I don't really appreciate any of the comments here, as I can't quite get through the mire of personal attack and insult to understand more about the product everyone is upset about here...Professional, clinical opinion is one thing, and these opinions are not that at all. I guess I am in the wrong place for sound advice...?
No, we just dont appretiate the false infomation about failure rates that is being spread. Show us the data!
Cowards: What a competitor of Pensar Medical LLC may become when it cannot fairly compete with a better company and its superior products. By David Buchicchio, Manager, Pensar Medical, LLC. Pensar Medical LLC is home to innovative, patent-pending products for negative pressure wound care. A customer of Pensar Medical LLC recently contacted us. He was alarmed at false and damaging statements found at an anonymous website in a blog posted on March 23, 2015 (“False Website”). This post is presented to correct for our customers the mis-representations and false innuendo of the False Website. The False Website generally promotes products of a competitor of Pensar Medical LLC. The false statements about Pensar Medical LLC in the blog seem to originate or have some connection with that competitor. After careful research, no person or company can be found who is responsible for the False Website. No person or company is shown as the author of the posts or owner of the website. The False Website was built by its owner to say false and outrageous things about Pensar Medical LLC from behind a wall of Internet anonymity. Cowards – that is what we call people or companies who build, post at and maintain such anonymous websites with false, damaging statements about others. If the post of March 23, 2015 originates with or is created on behalf of a competitor of Pensar Medical LLC, such a competitor has acted childishly and has conducted a campaign of lies in the manner of such a child playing hide and go seek. The harm done to Pensar Medical LLC by the writer of the post of March 23, 2015 at the False Website is real. Corrective notices cannot undo all the damage done. The operator of the False Website has been asked to take down the offensive and inaccurate post of March 23, 2015 with the address found at the bottom of this post. We shall not respond to every statement that is false on its face or by innuendo, but the following are responses to certain of the most outrageous of the statements about Pensar Medical LLC at the False Website. 1. Pensar Medical has all required FDA approvals for their black foam dressing. The False Website wrongly asserted that Pensar Medical LLC was not “able” to get FDA approval of black (hydrophobic) foam. That assertion is literally false and was known to be false to the writer. Addition of that black foam dressing to Pensar Medical LLC products was made in strict compliance with FDA protocols and procedures that indicated FDA approval, in that limited case, was not required. However, Pensar Medical LLC has recently submitted a request for 510(k) review of one of its family of products as a formality so that its name will appear in online databases. The black foam dressing is included in that request for 510(k) review. 2. Pensar Medical LLC is not, has not and never will be known as Accuro Medical. The False Website wrongly asserted that Pensar Medical LLC was “aka Accuro Medical”. That assertion is literally false and was known to be false to the writer. No public record or transaction of Pensar Medical LLC was, is, or ever will be made under the name “Accuro Medical”.The writer has libeled Pensar Medical LLC by saying it is basically the same company that went out of business, a statement that diminishes the reputation of Pensar Medical LLC and its founders, none of who worked for or owned any part of Accuro Medical. 3. Pensar Medical LLC owns 510(k) approvals from the FDA for its wound dressings. The False Website wrongly inferred that Pensar Medical LLC does not own 510(k) approvals for its products. That innuendo is literally false and was known to be false to the writer. The writer based the statement on the writer’s inadequate and lazy research skills. Before starting operations, Pensar Medical LLC conducted an in-depth review of its products in cooperation with the FDA and obtained approval of its 510(k) coverage in that process. Decent research skills for online databases are all that is needed for a researcher to find the online records of Pensar Medical LLC’s 510(k) approvals for its products. 4. Pensar Medical LLC is a registered medical device supplier and does not rely on an “FDA K#” for the right to operate its business. The False Website wrongly inferred that Pensar Medical LLC operates its business as a medical device supplier on the basis of a 510(k) approval. That innuendo is literally false and was known to be false to the writer. The writer based the statement on the writer’s feigned ignorance of basic FDA terminology in an attempt to confuse customers of Pensar Medical LLC, whose registration number is 3007793449, with an owner/operator number of 10043309 and an FDA status of ACTIVE. The 510(k) number for the WoundPro System is K100823. 5. Pensar Medical LLC is registered with the FDA as: Manufacturer; Remanufacturer; Specification Developer; and U.S. Manufacturer of Export Only Devices. The False Website falsely stated that Pensar Medical LLC must limit its business to export only business. That innuendo is literally false and was known to be false to the writer. The writer based the statement on the writer’s feigned temporary blindness to three other registration bases for the business of Pensar Medical LLC in the online records for the FDA. 6. Pensar Medical has all required FDA approvals for their Stingray feature. The False Website wrongly inferred that Pensar Medical LLC was required to obtain FDA approval of a Stingray pad feature of its products. That assertion is literally false and should have been known to be false to the writer. Addition of that Stingray pad feature to Pensar Medical LLC products was made in strict compliance with FDA protocols and procedures that indicated FDA approval, in that limited case, was not required. However, Pensar Medical LLC has recently submitted a request for 510(k) review of one of its family of products as a formality so that its name will appear in online databases. The Stingray pad feature is included in that request for 510(k) review. 7. Pensar Medical has all required FDA approvals for their Wound Pro Hydrophobic Foam Dressing kit. The False Website wrongly states that Pensar Medical LLC has not “approve (sic)” Wound Pro Hydrophobic Foam Dressing kit. That assertion is literally false and should have been known to be false to the writer. The Wound Pro Hydrophobic Foam Dressing kit was made in strict compliance with FDA protocols and procedures that indicated FDA approval, for specific, certain features, was not required. However, Pensar Medical LLC has recently submitted a request for 510(k) review of one of its family of products as a formality so that its name will appear in online databases. The Wound Pro Hydrophobic Foam Dressing kit is included in that request for 510(k) review. 8. Pensar Medical LLC has all required FDA approvals for their “foam” and is registered with the FDA as: Manufacturer; Remanufacturer; Specification Developer; and U.S. Manufacturer of Export Only Devices. The False Website falsely inferred that the “foam” of Pensar Medical LLC requires a separate 510(k) approval and stated that Pensar Medical LLC must limit its business to export only business. The innuendo and statement are literally false and were known to be or should be known to be false to the writer. The writer based the statement on the writer’s feigned temporary blindness to three other registration bases for the business of Pensar Medical LLC in the online records for the FDA. Pensar Medical LLC does not need anonymous communications to discuss its competitor’s products. It appears that a competitor of Pensar Medical LLC knew of the damage that could be done by false statements and took actions to shield itself from being known for them. Pensar Medical LLC honors its customers by being up front and open with them, unlike what appears to be a competitor that posted at the following address:
This MORON is clearly saying he does not have FDA 510K number and he is still pending or he is applying for this FDA 510K. Fuck off, you have nothing!