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To: barbara sperino who wrote (26433)	2/22/1999 1:29:00 PM
From: JCNelson	Respond to of 43774

HAY ALL CHECK THIS OUT.... Longport's (LDS) Scanner Used by Reconstructive Surgeon in Emergency Operation SWARTHMORE, Pa., Feb. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Surgeons who treat burns confront a real diagnostic dilemma. They must distinguish deep areas of the burn (''third degree'') which require removal of skin and skin grafting from those more superficial (''first and second degree'') which frequently heal without surgery. If unrecognized or untreated, deep burns cause life-threatening infections. Traditionally, burn surgeons based their decision to operate on certain abnormal appearances of the skin's surface together with the burned skin's inability to feel the physician's touch. In the case of a 35 year old man emergently hospitalized for severe scald burns to both feet, the ability to feel touch was lost many years prior in an accident which severely injured his spinal cord and left him paraplegic. ''To make a reliable decision for surgery, I needed more than my eyes. I needed a way to see into the skin and to view magnified images of the areas of the burn which were questionable in depth,'' said Dr. Stephen L. Harlin, M.D., Reconstructive Plastic Surgeon, Delaware County Memorial Hospital, Landsdowne, Pa. In what represents the first intraoperative use in the U.S., the LDS portable tissue scanner helped to guide burn wound surgery. The new technology enabled the operating team to confidently map out and remove only the deepest areas of the burn. Providing technical assistance to the team during the procedure, Bonita Weyrauch, R.N., Clinical Coordinator, Longport, Inc., said, ''The portable ultrasound tissue scanner captures high resolution real-time image of the skin. Those images are obtained non-invasively and are very similar to what physicians are familiar seeing in tissue biopsies.'' In the clinical management of burn wounds, watchful waiting results in exorbitant health care costs, prolonged hospitalizations, and increased mortality. ''Longport's new tissue imaging technology will play a major role in reducing costs by enhancing diagnostic accuracy and compelling the timely crossover from nonoperative to operative treatment,'' Dr. Harlin said. Longport, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: LPTI - news) is located in Swarthmore, Pa. For further information please contact Jim McGonigle, CEO at 1-800-289-6863 or visit Longport's web site at www.longportinc.com JCNelson