Deltex Medical Group is a medical technology company based in Chichester that produces blood monitoring and fluid management equipment for use in surgical operations.
It has sold 3000 [citation needed] of its main product, the ultrasound probe CardioQ-ODM, which measures the rate of blood flow from the heart.
According to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence it could save £1000 per operation and could be used on more than 800,000 patients a year.
The cash crisis affecting the NHS has meant that few machines have been bought.
[3] In 2011 the firm said that clinical awareness of optimising vascular fluids among surgery patients in the USA “remains some way behind the UK and continental Europe”.