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NEUCHATEL, Switzerland - Friday, August 19th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) announced today the CE Marking of RAS-45, a single-use adult and pediatric acoustic respiration sensor for rainbow Acoustic Monitoring® (RAM™) of respiration rate (RRa®).

Continuous monitoring of respiration rate is especially important for post-surgical patients receiving patient-controlled analgesia for pain management. The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) and The Joint Commission recommend continuous oxygenation and ventilation monitoring for all patients receiving opioid-based pain medications.1,2 RAM noninvasively and continuously measures respiration rate using an innovative adhesive sensor with an integrated acoustic transducer, such as Masimo’s RAS-125c and now RAS-45, that is applied to the patient’s neck. Using acoustic signal processing that leverages Masimo’s breakthrough Signal Extraction Technology (SET®) ... Read more »

Pulse Asia Survey Validates Trust in Philippine Automated Elections

MANILA, The Philippines - Thursday, August 18th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Polling data released by Pulse Asia, a public opinion polling body in the Philippines, highlights the positive verdict of the majority of Filipino voters on the 2016 National and Local Elections.

The overwhelming majority of Filipinos gave a positive verdict on the elections:

    92% of respondents thought that the release of the results was fast.
    89% believed the results are credible.
    89% would like to see automated voting in future elections.
    93% considered voting was easy.

Compared to previous elections, 63 percent of the respondents consider the most recent polls to be more credible while 78 percent noted that the release of electoral results was faster than the May 2010 elections.

“We a ... Read more »