Sky Medical Technology and Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust shortlisted for Bionow award for obstetrics blood clot prevention study
HIGH WYCOMBE, England, Jan. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Sky Medical Technology (Sky) has been shortlisted for the Healthcare Project of the Year at the Bionow awards, for its work with Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Maternity Unit with the winning project due to be announced on the 4th February.
- HIGH WYCOMBE, England, Jan. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Sky Medical Technology (Sky) has been shortlisted for the Healthcare Project of the Year at the Bionow awards, for its work with Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Maternity Unit with the winning project due to be announced on the 4th February.
- The project submitted to Bionow highlighted the work between Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust's Maternity Unit and Sky in preventing blood clots in high-risk pregnant patients.
- Barnsley Hospital worked in partnership with Sky to carry out a pilot observational study to determine whether Sky's innovative neuromuscular electrostimulation device, the geko, was suitable for blood clot prevention in high-risk pregnant patients where the current standard of care is not suitable.
- As such Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Maternity Unit worked with Sky to create a study focused on 90 patients who were contraindicated to the current standard of care.