Note: the CDN (canadian dealing network) lists World Heart as WHRT.
Stockwatch indicates that the corp can be reached at 613 237 4278.
The stockwatch chart shows December 96 volume of 800K shares on one day. Since reduced.
Metacrawler search on Heartsave came up bust. Except for a Norwegian cpr device---see below.
norinform/8 7 September 1993
HEARTSAVING INVENTION
Two Norwegian doctors have developed a heart compression machine which
may save countless lives that would previously have been lost.
Heartsaver 2000, is the name that the doctors, Hans A. Lossius and Lars
Vorland, have given to their invention, which can keep heart attack
patients alive until proper treatment can be given. Weighing only 8
kilos, Heartsaver has its own batteries, which operate for 40 minutes
but it can also be connected to any power supply. As heart compression
in a racing ambulance is very difficult to carry out, this time gain can
be of vital importance to patients who must be transported a long way to
a hospital. Previous attempts to construct a machine which will
effectively resuscitate a patient have been unsuccessful as the machines
have either been much too heavy, causing damage to internal organs, or
have not performed the function they were designed for.
Exhaustive tests both in Norway and at the International Resuscitation
Research Center in Pittsburgh, USA, have demonstrated that Heartsaver
2000 is simple in use, reliable and efficient. Major institutions in the
USA and Japan are extremely interested in the invention and a national
Japanese committee has already recommended that the machine be installed
in every ambulance in Japan.
The Stavanger concern, Laerdal Medical, already a well-known name in the
field of medical equipment, has purchased the company which developed
the machine and taken over the international patent rights. It plans to
launch Heartsaver on the world market within a few months. Claiming that
there is almost no competition, it is confident of success. |
