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Kinetic Concepts Inc. (KCI) Joins CIMIT’s Industry
Liaison Program (ILP)

For more than 30 years, KCI has been at the forefront of advanced healing technologies that positively affect patients, families, caregivers and providers alike. They design, manufacture, market and service a wide spectrum of innovative products that have been designed to improve clinical outcomes while helping to reduce the overall cost of care, backed by a worldwide network of service and clinical support. Employing approximately 7,000 people and marketing its products in more than 20 countries, KCI has three primary businesses.

Active Healing Solutions™ - Includes the KCI Vacuum Assisted Closure®, or V.A.C.® Therapy System, which has been clinically demonstrated to help promote wound healing through unique mechanisms of action while helping to reduce the overall cost of treating patients with complex wounds.

Regenerative Medicine - Represented by LifeCell Corporation, a KCI company, and includes tissue-based products for use in reconstructive, orthopedic and urogynecologic surgical procedures to repair soft tissue defects.

Therapeutic Support Systems - Includes specialty hospital beds, mattress replacement systems and overlays designed to address pulmonary complications associated with immobility, to reduce skin breakdown and assist caregivers in the safe and dignified handling of patients of size.

 

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