Here’s what you should know:
1. Optim will display the device at the American Academy of Otolaryngology — Head & Neck Society Annual Meeting, Sept. 10 to Sept. 12, in Chicago.
2. The device includes a flexible video laryngoscope with LED illumination, a digital video processor and an imaging capture suite with a 22-inch touch-screen display.
3. The device can be expanded to conduct nasal, sinus, voice and swallowing exams.
4. Optim CEO Paul Joyce said in a release, “We believe the ENTity VL system will serve as a practical hub for clinicians to not only perform flexible video laryngoscopy procedures, but to expand easily to stroboscopy, flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing, and camera-and-rigid sinoscopy exams – all enabled by the Imaging Capture Suite.”
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