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Loughborough University spin out Dialog Devices is NHS Showcase company

Posted on 29/12/2008

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Loughborough University spin out Dialog Devices is NHS Showcase company

It has just been announced that Dialog Devices, makers of Padd, the Peripheral Artery Disease assessment device, are an exemplar of innovation and practicality. Padd will be showcased in the NHS Alliance 2008 Conference this month.

Department of Health has awarded Dialog Devices a £400k Health Technology Devices Grant to aid the introduction of Padd to Doctors’ Surgeries and other primary care units. This national multi-centre study is being led by Professor Kamlesh Khunti, an an advisor to the National Screening Committee on Vascular Screening and Royal College of General Practitioners’ Representative for the Quality and Outcomes Framework Review Panel for Cardiovascular disease.

Professor Khunti commented: “Currently many patients in primary care have subclinical cardiovascular disease. This device, if successful, would enable us to identify people at future risk of cardiovascular disease who would substantially benefit from preventative therapies."

Padd is a non-invasive application which allows for rapid and simple assessment of blood circulation in the lower limbs and feet. The test takes under five minutes and, because it requires minimal training, it can be operated at a primary care level, reducing the need for patients to travel to hospital and speeding a diagnosis of Peripheral Artery Disease.

  Photography courtesy of Andy Weekes

 

Dr Vincent Crabtree, Technical Director of Dialog Devices, was inspired to develop Padd after his grandfather died following a leg amputation from Peripheral Arterial Disease aged 55