HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Saranas Inc., a medical device company with innovative technology for real-time detection and monitoring of internal bleeding during endovascular procedures, today announced that it has been granted de novo classification by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the Early Bird Bleed Monitoring System.
According to a recent study of over 17,000 large-bore transcatheter interventions from the National Inpatient Sample Database, one in five patients experienced a bleed complication. A 2017 report in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported a three times increase in mortality, two times increase in length of hospital stay and 60 percent increase in healthcare costs of procedural bleeding after percutaneous interventions using large-bore catheters.
“Gaining FDA approval for the Early Bird is a significant milestone for Saranas as it demonstrates our continued commitment to address an unmet need for real-time detection and monitoring of endovascular bleed complications,” said Saranas President and CEO Zaffer Syed. “As the first and only device on the market for early bleed detection, we have the potential to significantly reduce bleeding complications and related healthcare costs, while improving clinical outcomes in patients undergoing endovascular procedures.”