Sphere Medical Holding PLC Announces Positive Results From Point Of Care Pelorus 1500 Study

Sphere Medical Holding PLC announced that Pelorus 1500, the in-vitro diagnostic medical device for the rapid measurement of the intravenous anaesthetic propofol at the point of care, has met its primary end point in a clinical study and has demonstrated equivalent performance to a gold standard method of analysis. A total of 111 whole blood samples from 32 patients undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass surgery at the Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK were analysed. Each sample was tested using both Sphere Medical's Pelorus 1500 and the current gold standard High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) reference test. The results from the Pelorus 1500 showed excellent agreement with the reference method (1).