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A form of money
A medium of exchange
AAGL
AAO-HNS/F Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO
Abdominal Diaphragm Adhesions
Abdominoplasty or tummy tucks
Aberdeen
Ability to articulate
Ability to release drugs
Access
accountants
acquire all services
Acquire New Patient Referrals
Acquire your credit in Barter Units
Acquires Medtronic’s Bravo pH Monitoring Business
Acquisition to Be Accretive to Both Top and Bottom Line
Adhesiolysis removal of scar tissue
Adiana Transcervical Sterilization System
Adjusts the direction of view
Advanced IntraPull power-assisted disposable technology
Advanced Surgical Specialty Products
Advantages over existing non-incisional methods
Aer-O-Scope
Aesop
Affordable robotic assistance
After cooling off the appendix
Agile capsule
Agile patency capsule
AirSeal Dynamic Pressure System
allow for quick and easy online transactions
Allows affordable assistance
Allows NOTES surgeons to use laser surgery
Allows user to control multiple degrees of freedom DOF
American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists AAPS
and Chinese University Hong Kong
Andrew Baxter
Aneurysm Repair Vascular Grafting
Animal model
Announces FDA Approval
Announces Product Commercialization
Annually results in 450000 acute appendectomies
anomalies
Antonius Hospital Nieuwegein The Netherlands
Apnea
Apollo
Appendicitis
Appendix-inverting device AID
Appendoectomy devices ablate neutralize and seal the ap
Ara Darzi
arteries
Arthroscopic
Articulated robotic colonoscope system
Articulating instruments
Asthma
Atrial and Septal Defects
Attach to an endoscope
attorneys
Automated endoscope reprocessors AER
Autonomy Laparo-Angle
Avoid complicated techniques and tedious procedures
Avoid hospital admission
Avoid incisions altogether
Avoid the inconveniences of a pure barter system
Back to normal within a couple of days
Ballooning blood vessels
BAROnova
BAROnova Secures Investment
Barret’s Esophagus Obesity Colon Surgery
Barter
Barter for it
barter for them
barter is booming
barter skills and talents in exchange for surgical procedures and dental care
Barter Units
bartering is gaining popularity. cash intensive services such as surgery
Beginning inversion at its base
Bella bipolar tissue fusion
Benign epithelial tumor
Between 0 and 120 degrees
Binary major adverse cardiac event MACE rate
Bladder Cancer
Blind primary incision through a hollow viscus
Body contouring after bariatric surgery
Boston Scientific BSX
brain aneurysms
Breakthrough in minimally invasive laser technology
Breast biopsy
Breast health
Bright alternatives to sutures with needle and thread
Bronchial and rectal stenoses
Bronchoscopy
Brush cytology
building an employee benefit plan
Business owners with an eye toward cutting costs
Bypass
C R Bard
Calcified aorta hampers development of vascular staplin
California Fund of $11M
Cambridge Endo
Can’t afford health care
Cardia esophagogastric junction
Cardiac death
Cardiovascular
cash-strapped times
Catharina Hospital Eindhoven
Catheter-free pH test
Catheterization with Fogarty and Foley catheters
Cchromoendoscopy
Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Tec
Cervical cancer screening
Challenges facing the hospital sector
Challenges with suturing
Chicago
chicago area
Chicago GYN uses advanced techonology
Cholecystectomy
Chronic inflammatory disease
Chronic ulcerative colitis
Clear colorless hair-gel-like synthetic polymer
Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation
Clinical best practices
Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons
clinical-stage medical technology company
Clinically proven bioabsorbable and biologic implants
Clinicians at Harvard teaching hospitals and Boston uni
Closed wounds approximately 33.6 seconds per centimeter
Coated With One Of Nature’s Antibiotics
coils
Colon disorders
Colonic resection performed extracorporeally
Colonoscope with a disposable ColonoSleeve tube and she
ColonoSight system
Colorectal cancer malignant tumor
compared to standard angiography-guided PCI
Compared to traditional laparoscopic approaches
Compared with traditional electrosurgery
Comparison of outcomes
Compensation
Competitive Position
Complex minimally invasive therapies
Computer-assisted power-actuated surgical stapling prod
Computerized systems of credits and debits
Conmed
Connect blood vessels without sutures
consultants
Contraceptive tubal blockage
Control multiple degrees of freedom with a single hand
Control of two tools simultaneously
Conventional 0° Hopkins® rod lens telescope
converted to cash
Cook Endoscopy
Coronary Arteriosclerosis
Correlation between FFR
cost and restricted availability of health care
Coughing
Court cuts Boston Scientific patent case payment
Covered by a compressed protective sheath
Credit clouds darken over the medical device industry
credited when sales are made
Cuba Looks at Endoscopic Surgery
Currency is redeemable in United States Dollars
Currently under Food and Drug Administration FDA review
Damage the esophagus
Data recorder
David Rattner
Davol
debited when purchases are made
Deep brain stimulation
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA
Defibrillator sales up
Delivers a Range of Clinical Benefits
Delivers value
Delivery catheter introduced through hysteroscope
Design and instrumentation of new devices
Detecting gastrointestinal disorders
Determine its location
Developed by real-time media > Television or video g
Developed to conduct third party bartering
Developing a new class
Developing endoscopically delivered devices
Device and procedure development
Devices Electrophysiology mapping & ablation
Diagnosing and treating abnormalities
Diagnosis of gastrointestinal tract lesions
Diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic products
Diagnostics
Diathermy cauterization or electrodiathermy
Difficulty swallowing
Dimension Visual Programming Software
Direct Drive Endoscopic System
Direct Drive flexible endoscopy prototype
Directly to the location of the disease
Disposable capsule
Disposable ColonoSleeve multi-lumen tube
Disposable endoscope for the treatment of GERD
Disposable endoscopy products
Disposable miniature video camera contained in a capsul
Distal tip of catheter delivers RF energy
Diverse range of industry-leading product lines
Divisibility
dr michael
Drilling
During chronic phase of appendiceal disease
Dutch group develops ‘intelligent pill’
Dysphagia
each participating member has an account
each party receives something
Ease of use for the physician
Easier applications
Economy pressures hospitals
Effective manner
Eimilar weight loss to restrictive surgeries
Electro-pneumatic System Control Unit SCU
Eliminating diminutive polyps in the colon
Elliott Associates LP
emergency health coverage
employee health coverage
Enabling machine
Enabling quicker recovery
Endarterectomy
EndoAssist
Endocameleon
Endocameleon laparoscope
Endocameleon laparoscope navigation
EndoCinch BARD Endoscopic Technologies
Endologix
Endoluminal body passageways
Endoluminal Radiofrequency Ablation of Barrett’s Esopha
Endoluminal sleeve
Endomechanical instrumentation
Endometrial cancer
Endosamurai prototype for NOTES applications
Endoscopes
Endoscopic diagnosis and therapy
Endoscopic Suturing for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
Endoscopic Suturing Kit Capsule
Endoscopic Technologies
Endoscopy Endoscopic
EndoSight non-fiber optic colonoscope
Endosonography
EndoSurgery
Enhancing clinical outcomes
Enrolled fewer patients and fewer diabetics
ENT
entrepreneurs
ENTrigue Surgical
Epicor Software Corp
Epithelium muscle sheath
ESD-5 including the Sew Right Device and Tie Knot Devic
Esophageal muscular membranous tube
Esphagectomy
Etiology causes or origins of disease
European Association of Endoscopic Surgery EAES
European collaborators on stent graft techniques for ab
EUROSTAR
Evaluation methods that include visual media
Evidence of cancer risk from 62 million computed tomogr
Exchange telescopes
existence and growth demonstrated that it works
Exposure to asbestos
Extraluminal
eye care
Eye-Tracking system
Face challenges
Facilitating control of a tool
FAME Study Published in New England Journal of Medicine
Familial polyposis of the colon
Faster time-to-market
FDA Approval
Feasible and oncologically safe procedure
Features Proprietary Technology
Fewer elective surgical procedures
Fewer or no incisions
Fewer purchases of medical devices
FFR an index for functional severity of coronary stenos
FFR-guided PCI improves outcomes
Fiber optic tool
Field of microsurgery
Flexible endoscope for transvaginal removal of the gall
Flexible endoscope shaft
Flexible endoscopic transvaginal cholecystectomy; Emerg
Flexible endoscopy and endoluminal surgery
Flexible fiber-optic tubes
Flexible surgical instrument
For chronic treatment of all stages of obesity
For Diagnosing Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease GERD
For Endoluminal and NOTES Applications
Forces delivered to distal working end
Fractional flow reserve FFR
Fractional flow reserve FFR versus Angiography for Mult
Frames and rails
FreeHand
From Allergan
Functionality and precision
furt
Future for better wound closure
Gastric
Gastric bypass or duodenal switch
Gastric looping
Gastric sleeve resection
Gastroesophageal reflux
Gastrointestinal Bleeding Tissue Resection GERD
Gastrointestinal diagnosis
Gastrointestinal tract.
Gastroparesis due to the delayed gastric emptying
Gets Buyout Bid
GI tract
GI View Ltd
Given Imaging
Given Imaging Ltd
Global cost effectiveness
Global developer manufacturer and distributor of medica
Go home after half an hour
Goes High Tech
groin
Guard against overdoses
Guiding themes of natural science and technology medici
Guinness World Record book
GYN surgical
GYN/Urologist
Gynecologic
Gynecology
Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery
Haustrum saccules or pouches
Healthcare needs of women
Healthcare Reform
Heart valves
Heartburn
Heartburn caused by GERD
hemorrhage
High market value in relation to volume and weight
Hold a camera steady for protracted periods
Hologic GYN surgical products
Hologic Receives CE Marking
Human assistant in key-hole gallbladder removal
Hybrid laparoscopic approach
Hypogastrium
Hysterectomies
Hysterosalpingogram HSG
Hysteroscopic sterilization
Hysteroscopy Hysterectomy Fertility
i- snake
Ideas For Surgery News
Identify potential life-threatening problems sooner
Iliac fossa inner concavity of the ilium
imaging technologies
Imperial College London
Impermeable sleeve
Implantable device
Improve healing
Improve the current method
Improve the outcome of surgery
Improve wound closure in the field of endoluminal endos
Improvement
Improves safety and speed
in line with small business owners’ needs
Incision-less bariatric surgery
Incision-less surgery
Incontinence
Inderbir S Gill
Inflammatory bowel disease IBD
Inner lining
Innovation of the Year
Innovative medical device
Innovative Trocar Line
Inscope flexible clip applier
Inserting an AID into the appendiceal lumen
Insertion tube diameter
INSORB absorbable dermal stapler
Installed base of more than 1030 da Vinci robots
Instead of acquiring products or services with cash
Institutue of Textile Technology and Process Engineerin
Instrument channel size
Instrument rails
Instruments and peripheral devices for medical treatmen
Integrated Systems
Intelect Medical
Intelect Medical Inc
Intelect’s deep brain stimulation software
Intellectual property
Intellectual property portfolio
Intermediary used in trade
Internal Mammary Artery Cardiac Assist
international clinical trial
International technology company
Internet based consumer market
Intervention Device
Intestinal lining
Intra-abdominal endoscopically assisted stapled anastom
Intralumenal Surgery
Intraluminal
Introduction of multiple laparoscopic instruments
invasive surgical procedure
Invendo
Inverted sleeve technology
Inverting appendix
Irradiation of the cervix
Irvine medical device maker
Jejunal Tubes J-tubes PEJ feeding tube
John Hunter
Johns Hopkins
Keyhole
Kidney Stones
Killing bacteria and fungi
Kirby Vosburgh
Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Technical University of
Lack of support for the flexible endoscope
Lap-Band and the Realize Band
Laparoscope with variable direction of view
Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
Laparoscopic supracervical
Laparoscopic techniques
Laparoscopic telesope 0° 30° 45°
Large intestine
Larynx Surgery
Leads $11M brain injury therapy funding
Learning
Least invasive products for cardiac surgery
Leaving much smaller scars
Left Atrial Appendage closure occlusion or removal for
Left Ventricular Reduction
Left wet or be dried
Less blood loss
Less collateral thermal injury
LESS enabling technology
less incentive to deliberately mislead
LESS Instrumentation
Less invasive treatment for obesity
LESS Panel
LESS SPA called scarless surgery
Less-invasive medicine
Leverage our IP and know-how
Ligature to tie a vessel or strangulate a part
Limited retraction
Lining of the esophagus
Lining the duodenum
Lining the upper small intestine
Liver
lobbying for health-care reform
Lower esophageal sphincter
Lower temperature associated with the PlasmaBlade
Ludwig Georg Braun
Lumen inner open space or cavity
Lung Cancer Therapy
Lung Volume Reduction
MA-NOS radical sigmoidectomy
Machine operating independently
Main Street Alliance
Maintain pneumoperitoneum pressure
Malignant neoplasm
MBA does all the service for you
MBA exchange
MBA Member
MBA Members make purchases with Barter Units
Measure acidity or temperature with a sensor
Measured by PressureWire
Medical Barter
Medical Barter Association MBA
Medical biomaterials
Medical device
Medical device sector
Medical devices connectivity
Medical devices not designed to talk to each other
Medical imaging systems
Medical Universities Research Institutes Med Societies
Medical University South Carolina
Medicare
Medigus
Medium of exchange
Megachannel
Memory
Microprocessor battery wireless radio pump and a drug r
migraines
Mini C-arm for extremity imaging
Miniaturized video camera
Minimal or no scars
Minimally invasive gynecological techniques
Minimally invasive gynecology
Minimally invasive laparoscopic procedures
Minimally invasive procedures
Minimally invasive surgery
Minimally invasive treatment of abdominal aortic aneury
Minimally invasive treatment of abdominal aortic aneury
modern imaging
Molecular diagnostic products
Moody’s sets “negative” outlook
More safe and successful procedures
More surgeries despite economic downturn
More than 820
Moving to New Clinical Trials
Much faster recovery
Multi-tasking
multicenter study
Multivitamin-sized iPill
Myocardial infarction rate
Myomectomies removal of fibroids
Nano-surgery
Narrowing of the esophagus
Nasal/ Sinuses
Natural Orifices Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery NOTES
Navel
NDO surgical Mansfield MA
need a hotel room
need a vacation
need for top producing ad space
need office equipment serviced
need surgery
Neelan Doolabh
Neither party is paid
Neoguide
Neurological Surgical Procedures
Neurology
New Obesity Intervention Device
New Surgery tool
New surgical techniques
New York hedge fund
Next generation devices and therapies
Nico Pijls
No commercializing and further development
No evidence of embolization toxicity or end organ damag
no need to pay cash
Non-pharmacologic
Non-surgical
Non-Vascular Radiology
Nonoperative repair
Northwestern University
Not offering health insurance
NOTES Research Award Winners 2008
novel solution to the problem of finding affordable surgical services
Nuclear perfusion imaging
Number of anti-anginal drugs
Obesity-induced diabetes
OBGYN removed largest uterus ever laparoscopically
Obtain products and services without spending any cash
obtaining medical services
Omni directional dielectric mirro
One incision made through umbilicus
One-shot anastomotic stapler US Surgical Corporation Co
Oophorectomies removal of the ovaries
operates as a broker and bank
Optimal visualisation of the operative field
Organized barter exchange
Orthopedic
Orthopedics
Osteoporosis assessment
Otolaryngology
OUS Market 800000 in the western world
Outpatient Procedures
Ovarian cystectomies removal of ovarian cysts
OverStitch endoscopic suture system
Ovesco
Painful swallowing
Pancreatic
Pancreatitis is inflammation of the pancreas
Passist
pathologist
Patient Care and Powered Surgical Instruments
Patient demographics
Patient lawsuits
Patient Receives New Incision-Free Weight-Loss Surgery
Patient satisfaction levels
Patient time to mobility reduced
Patient with individual problem
Patient’s perspective dramatically different
Patient-friendly medical care technology
Patient-friendly procedures
Patient-friendly products
Patients
Patients and physicians
Patients undergoing laparoscopic surgery
Patients Who Gain Weight After Bariatric Surgery
Patients With Class II or Low Grade Class III Obesity
Patients with Large Aortic Necks
Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
Patients’ safety at risk
Paul G Curcillo
pay for dental surgery with barter
PEAK Surgery System
PEAK Surgical
Pediatric varicocelectomy
Pedro del Nido
Peptide
Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty PTA
Perfect mirror
Perform at least 130000 prostatectomies hysterectomies
Performed via very small incisions
Performing appendectomy at colonoscopy
performing surgical services
Peristalsis
Peritoneal biopsies taking tissue samples
Permanent contraception
Permanent Contraception System
Permits the value of goods to be assessed
Peroral transgastric
Philips iPill capsule
PillCam COLON video capsule
PillCam ESO 2 video capsule
PillCam platform
PillCam SB 2 video capsule
PillCam video capsules
Pivotal Empower clinical trial
Placement inside intramural section of fallopian tube
Places disposable barrier
PlasmaBlade
Plastic
PMA supplement
political priority
Poor endoscopic vision
Portal hypertension in the portal vein
Possess the following characteristics
Possible to reflect CO2 lasers
Potential to Be Safer and More Cost Effective
Powerlink XL System
Practice of Minimally Invasive Gynecology
Pre-cancerous lesion
Pre-market approval PMA application
Pre-revenue and pre-commercial med-tech firms
Premium diagnostics products
Preserving highest possible quality of life
President Obama
Preterm birth risk assessment
Prevent Infection
Primary clinical endpoint
Primary Placement
Prime development partner
problem that plagues many entrepreneurs
Problems for device makers in 2009
Process information better
Product development
Product development programme
Prognostic value of FFR after stenting
Project funded by the United States Department of Defen
Project management skills
Prosurgics
Prosurgics’ FreeHand
Protective sheath
Prototype stage
Prototype toolbox for NOTES applications
Pulmonary/ENT
Radi Medical Systems now part of St. Jude Medical Cardi
Radiation treatment for early-stage breast cancer
RAPID software
Reagents for a variety of DNA and RNA analysis applicat
Receives 510k Clearance
recession drags on
Recognizability
Reconstructive
Record-breaking surgery
Record-Breaking Uterus
Reduce cost
Reduce incisions with laparoscopic port placement
Reduce pain
Reducing cost
Reducing pain and risks
Reducing pain and trauma
Reducing risk of infection
Reduction in risk
reforming the health care system
Release drugs
Release medication in a specific area in the body
Releases new product
Reliable sterilization devices
Remote surgery
Removal of the appendix or gallbladder via the stomach
Renal and biliary calculi
Rendered in terms of the intermediary
Replace large incisions with several small ones
Resistance to counterfeiting
Resolves diabetes
Respiratory problems
Responses to user input forces
Restenosis Therapy
Restoration of normal glucose metabolism
Restricted to a particular angle of view
Results of 18-month follow-up study
Revascularization
Rigid articulating instruments
Risk of intestinal perforation
Robo-surgery
Robot assisted
Routine gall bladder surgery
run ads for your practice
Sagentia
Salpingectomies removal of the fallopian tubes
Saphenous Vein Graft
Sealing off
Sebastian Veersema
Secured at the outlet of the stomach
Secures $6.4 million
Selects Laparoendoscopic Single-Site Surgery LESS
Sell your surgical services
send out marketing materials
Sensor array
Serious medical problems
SerpENT Articulating Instruments
service that barters dental
Shoots electrical pulses into vagus nerve
Short tethered cationic antimicrobial peptides
Shortening hospital stays and recovery time
Shorter learning curves
Shunts
Sightline Technologies
Sigmoid adenocarcinoma
Simplify surgical procedures
Simultaneously monitor insufflator
Single AirSeal cannula
Sir Alf Cuschieri
Skeletal health
Sleeve gastrectomy
Slowing gastric emptying
Small intestine
Smoke & Plume Evacuation
Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Sur
Softening demand for certain medical products
Solutions with Natural orifice translumenal endoscopic
Sonja Gillen
Speed recovery
Spinal
Stent graft migration following endovascular aneurysm r
Stent sales down
Sterilization Myomectomy Endometriosis
Still developing technology
Stomach flow back up into the esophagus
Strengthens Given Imaging’s GI Portfolio
Stryker closes Israel operations
Successful outcome
Suitable for serial manufacturing
Supporting and/or constraining movement of a tool
Suprarenal stent grafts
Surgery-free weight loss
Surgical access
Surgical Implants
Surgical Markets Globally
surgical practice
Surgical robot
Surgical Specialty
Surgical stapler
SurgiQuest
Suture’s future
Sutureless microvascular anastomosis using thermorevers
Swap
Swapping for service
Synvascular
take your friends or staff to lunch or dinner
Technical Problems Encountered
Ten centimeter long impermeable sleeve
The Foundry
The Royal Hallamshire Hospital
Therapeutic Endoscopy
Thermocouples maintain constant temperature
Thomas Fogarty Engineering
Thorascopic
ticking time bomb
Tight cash position
Tissue biopsy and polypectomy
Tissue Dissection Device
To the circulatory system
Tonsils
Too much pain medication through IV pump
top business challenges
Torn retinas
Total laparoscopic TLH
total vaginal TVH
Trade
Trade for it
Trans-anal
Trans-nasal
Trans-oral
Trans-Rectal
Trans-uretheral
Trans-vaginal
Transactions are taxed
Transanal endoscopic microsurgery TEM
Transcervical methods of female sterilization
Transcervically
Transduodenal necrosectomy
transgastric retroperitoneal for pancreatic debridement
Translumenal applications
Translumenal NOTES
Transluminal translumenal procedures
Transoral procedure
Transportability
TransPyloric Shuttle TPS
Transrectal
Transvaginal minilaparoscopic-assisted natural orifice
Transvaginal resection in the human
Transvaginal trocar for dissection and stapling
Transvaginally
traumatic experience
Treat conditions in both the gut lumen and in the perit
Treat digestive tract disorders such as Crohn’s disease
Treat gynecological problems
Treatment for menorrhagia
Treatment indications
Treatment of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms AAA
Treatment of infected pancreatic necrosis
Treatments for traumatic brain injury
Treats obesity
Trends and Predictions in 2009
Tubal occlusion and permanent sterilization
Tumor Therapy Hydrocephalus
Type of drug-eluting stent
Ulcerative colitis UC
Ultrasonic sights
Uncontrolled pneumoperitoneum achieved with room air
Uninsured
University of British Columbia
University of California at San Diego
University Texas Medical Branch-Galveston
Unsolicited buyout offer
Upper jejunum
Upper portion of the small intestine
Upwards of 90 million Americans Detectable appendiceal
Ureteral Reimplantation
UROLOGY NOTES
use direct mail
Use in Expanded Indications
use professional services
Use the opportunity to balance work and play
Used in traumatic brain injury recovery treatment
User interface is remote from surgical tools and/or end
Using smaller and fewer incisions or no incisions
uterus weighs 3200 gram approximately 7 pound
vaginal vault prolapse
Valuable MBA Directories
Valves replacement & repair
Variable direction of view
Varices
Vascular
Vascular anastomosis
Vascular Stenting
Vermiform appendix
Versaport Plus Bladeless Trocars
Vessel Harvest
vessel wall
Vestigial survival
vHi-Tech Advances
Via a colonoscope
ViaCath EndoVia Medical
Video games
Viewing bartering as a viable option
Visceral peritoneum
visit to the spa
Visualisation of regions previously inaccessible
Washington University School of Medicine
Weight loss and control of diabetes
Weight-loss technology
Widely accepted to buy any other good
Widely marketable
Widens Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening
Will file for premarket approval PMA
Wilson-Cook Medical
Wireless
without engaging in a traditional monetary transactions
Without Surgery
Working length
Young device firms struggle
your fellow MBA Members
Zeus
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