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Front Line Medical Counts On Fast UK Access For COBRA-OS REBOA Device

Aortic Occlusion Device Maker Plans To Capitalize On UK Prehospital System

 
• By Natasha Barrow

The UK's established emergency care prehospital system potentially opens up a faster route to market for Front Line Medical Technologies's aortic occlusion device, COBRA-OS. Asha Parekh, Front Line CEO, talks to Medtech Insight about the company's different strategic approach to UK market access in comparison to North America.

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Front Line Medical Technologies Launches COBRA-OS REBOA Device In The UK (Shutterstock)

Front Line Medical Technologies is approaching the UK with a different market access strategy in comparison to that for North America in the launch of the company’s aortic occlusion device, said Asha Parekh, Front Line Medical Technologies’ CEO.

“The [emergency care] prehospital system in Europe is quite different from ours [in North America], where we do not have...

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