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For decades, medical professionals have used slow, cumbersome, imprecise water baths to thaw plasma. It’s time for a better way!

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Thaw More Plasma Faster with ZipThaw®

Traditionally, plasma thawing is done in hot water baths which are slow, messy, and outdated. With their slow thawing to imprecise temperatures, time taken for warm up, and extensive maintenance and clean up needs, water baths make it impossible to maintain high plasma throughput levels.

Now there’s an easier way to thaw more plasma, faster. ZipThaw® is a made in the USA, AABB SCoPE certified, FDA-cleared plasma thawing medical device that uses advanced dry technology and safety features to thaw quickly and reliably.

ZipThaw’s two independent chambers can thaw 8 bags to a measured 31°C for transfusion, or 12 bags to a measured 15°C for refrigeration in just 60 minutes. ZipThaw is also completely portable, virtually downtime-free, and requires fewer staffers to operate.

One of the biggest challenges for blood banks and trauma centers is throughput. How quickly can clinicians deliver thawed plasma to patients in need? Consider safe-handling concerns, workflow complexity and the short-lived viability of thawed plasma — getting plasma to a patient, safely and efficiently, is enormously complicated. The current system built around slow, labor-intensive water bath thawing methods is rife with problems and in desperate need of innovation.

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It was another busy week at FreMon Scientific. In addition to presenting ZipThaw to the Naval Medical Center San Diego, Fred Thacher and Linda Fabian also demonstrated the ZipThaw dry plasma thawing medical device to Dr. Ginn and her team at the Camp Pendleton Naval Hospital.

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This week FreMon Scientific Co-Founder Fred Thacher and National Accounts Director Linda Fabian toured the Naval Medical Center San Diego and demonstrates ZipThaw to its clinicians. NMCSD is a world class hospital that cares for service members, veterans and their families.

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Purchasers at the Egypt trade show, Egymedica, are seeing ZipThaw in action at the Miralab booth. We’re excited about all the action at the front of the booth including reporters from Egyptian TV. We’re busy fielding private and public requests for demonstrations and information.

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Egymedica (www.egymedica.com) is this May 27-29 at the Cairo International Convention Center in Egypt. MiraLab will be at stand Number F6 to present ZipThaw and ZipSleeve. If you’re in Cairo, please stop by to learn more about ZipThaw.

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We had a great session yesterday at the Minnetronix facilities in Minnesota which manufactures ZipThaw. We do quality control testing for each and every ZipThaw before it’s shipped to a blood bank, research facility or more across the world.

ZipThaw undergoing 100% QC testing at Minnetronix.

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FreMon Scientific is pleased to announce that ZipThaw, a dry, portable plasma thawer, is officially AABB Standards Compliant.

The AABB, the international association for advancing transfusion medicine and biotherapies in more than 80 countries, thoroughly evaluated and approved ZipThaw for the AABB Standards Compliant Product Evaluation Program, known as SCoPE.

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We went to Texas to present ZipThaw to a civilian hospital and senior military medical staff. It was a great trip and we’re excited for the positive feedback and purchases.

CEO & CSO Dr. Farideh Bischoff and National Sales Director Linda Fabian were invited by the Director of Laboratory Services to demonstrate ZipThaw to blood bank clinicians at the Methodist Hospital Texsan.

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We’re pleased to share that ZipThaw is featured as sponsored content in the Defense Media Network website. Please click the link to see it: Next Generation Plasma Thawing at the Point-of-care / ZipThaw’s™ dry technology expedites plasma thawing.

https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/next-generation-plasma-thawing-point-care/

Please see photos below from recent ZipThaw research in San Diego.

Preparing ZipThaw at the San Diego Blood Bank for testing a new application, mRNA recovery following freezing and thawing. With the ability to control the rate of thawing using ZipThaw and ZipSleeve, we hope to demonstrate optimal recovery of mRNA from a frozen state within minutes.

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Last week CEO and Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Farideh Bischoff, and Director of National Accounts Linda Fabian, traveled to the East Coast to present ZipThaw to several government and military health institutions. It was a great trip; we’re grateful for the enthusiastic interest in ZipThaw and for their recent purchases.

In DC, Virginia and Georgia, Farideh and Linda presented ZipThaw to the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health, to the Armed Services Blood Program at the Defense Health Agency, and to scientists at the Winn Army Community Hospital.

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We’ve just finished the research that demonstrates how thawing COVID-Convalescent Plasma with ZipThaw preserves plasma antibodies. Read the white paper.
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We’re delighted with the media attention after Congressman Richard Neal, Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, toured Boyd Technologies’ facility and saw ZipThaw and ZipSleeve in action. Boyd is our manufacturing partner in Lee, Massachusetts for ZipSleeves — a state of the art protective sleeve with special sensors that precisely measure plasma temperature. ZipThaw is the world’s first plasma thawing medical device that is dry, light-weight, accurate and easy to use.

Here are some outtakes and links to the news stories.
Berkshire Eagle – Neal Lauds Lee’s Boyd Technologies for Perseverance

IBerkshires.com – Congressman Richard Neal Visits Boyd Technologies

Patch.com – Congressman Neal Tours Boyd Technologies

We’re excited to have had a great meeting at Boyd with Congressman Richard Neal. Read all about in the Berkshire Eagle.

Fremon Scientific is pleased to announce the addition of Linda Fabian, R.Ph. to our team.  Linda will serve as Director of National Accounts.

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ZipThaw devices are ready for shipping to blood banks, hospitals, distributors and others in the USA, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Thailand, Qatar, Kuwait, Argentina, Israel, Sweden, Norway and Mexico.

All ZipThaw202s are assembled and manufactured in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA by Minnetronix under contract with FreMon Scientific. All ZipSleeves are manufactured in Lee, Massachusetts, USA by Boyd Technologies also under contract with FreMon Scientific.

Dr. Farideh Bischoff, FreMon Scientific CEO and Chief Science Officer, and the entire FreMon Scientific Team wish to thank both Minnetronix and Boyd for their outstanding teams of dedicated staff. Their years of medical product design and manufacturing expertise help make the most advanced blood products warming and thawing technology possible. Together we save lives.

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