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Gold/Mining/Energy : PYNG Technologies

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To: Barry Moss who wrote (468)2/5/1998 10:42:00 PM
From: Mark S. Schroeder  Read Replies (1) of 8117
 
Barry....here's today's news release


F.A.S.T.1TM Receives Ethical Approval to Proceed with USA Field Trials Coordinated by the University of Maryland Medical Center

Pyng Technologies Corp.
News Release
PYT.V February 5, 1998

Pyng Technologies Corp. is very proud to announce that subsidiary Pyng Medical Corp has
received Ethical Approval for the F.A.S.T. 1TM System for Intraosseous Infusion from the
University of Maryland Medical Center. Ethical Approval was required in order to proceed with full
field trial evaluation of the F.A.S.T. 1TM Intraosseous Infusion System in live patients, in actual
emergency room and pre hospital conditions. The University of Maryland Medical Center
(UMMC), one of America's major trauma centers, has agreed to conduct field trials and be the
central data collection center for the F.A.S.T. 1TM System in the USA.

Pyng Medical Corp is now cleared to proceed with UMMC on live trials at Maryland as well as
many other sites selected for field trials in the USA and coordinated by UMMC.

This news release follows our recently announced approval from the Ethical Review Board of the
University of British Columbia, Canada, to conduct field trials on the F.A.S.T. 1TMsystem at St.
Paul's Hospital in Vancouver and Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster.

Pyng Medical Corp. has consistently met the stringent requirements of both regulatory and ethical
approvals necessary to take this life saving medical device to market. Pyng Medical Corp's.
dedicated team is preparing to deliver the F.A.S.T. 1TM System and the training tools as quickly as
site visits can be arranged .

Over the last few months Pyng Medical Corp. has also achieved:

Canadian Health Protection Branch approval
U.S. FDA clearance #K970380
24 locations in America, including UMMC, selected for field trials subject to Ethical Approval
(Cleared).
Canadian Hospitals selected for field trials subject to Ethical Approval (Cleared)
Grant for $100,000.00 from the B.C. Science Council for field trials.
Full presentation to the US Military at the Special Operations Medical Association.
F.A.S.T. 1TM System featured article in January 1998 issue of Journal of Emergency
Medicine..

For additional information contact:
Michael W. Jacobs
(604) 875-4526 (Tel)
(604) 875-5390 (fax),
email: pyngmed@axionet.com

The V.S.E. has neither nor reviewed the contents of this news release.
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