Spacelabs Healthcare got its start monitoring the health of NASA astronauts; nowadays it makes medical diagnostic and therapeutic equipment for more Earth-bound patients. The company's Ultraview bedside patient monitor and telemetry systems keep up with patient's data and transmit it to caregivers through clinical wired and wireless networks. Its Blease anesthesia delivery systems and ventilators are used in operative and perioperative settings. Its Del Mar Reynolds unit develops heart monitors including electrocardiogram and ambulatory blood pressure monitors. Spacelabs Healthcare operates worldwide and holds all of the healthcare operations of its parent, OSI Systems.

Span-America Medical Systems's medical division makes therapeutic mattresses and mattress overlays (under the Geo-Matt and PressureGuard brand names), as well as Span-Aid patient positioners (used to elevate and support body parts) and Isch-Dish pressure-relief seat cushions to aid wound healing. Span-America also markets skin care creams for wound management, and consumer bedding and industrial foam products. It sells its wares through sales staff and distributors to hospitals, home health care dealers, and extended-care facilities in the US and Canada.

The company, which conducts business under the name SRI Surgical, provides hospital and surgical centers with such reusable surgical products as gowns and towels. It also provides reprocessed surgical instruments, basins, and surgical accessories that it sorts, sterilizes, and packages at just under a dozen regional facilities scattered throughout the US. Its daily pick-up and delivery service offers a cost-effective alternative to in-house recovery programs. SRI Surgical's marketing strategy hinges upon forming multi-year or short-term agreements with its 425 customers that include Kaiser Permanente, Novation, and HealthTrust Purchasing.

St. Jude Medical's main products are pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), both of which use electrical impulses to shock irregularly beating hearts back into rhythm. St. Jude, which was founded in 1976, also makes mechanical and tissue heart valves; items used in interventional cardiology procedures, such as catheters and guidewires; and ablation systems used to treat atrial fibrillation. Its neuromodulation business makes implantable devices (similar to pacemakers) that treat chronic pain using electrical stimulation. The company markets its products worldwide through its own sales force and distributors.

Starkey is a world leader in the design, development and distribution of comprehensive hearing solutions. Starkey believe in using superior hearing technology as a means to something even greater—creating meaningful connections between people and their worlds. With 22 facilities in more than 18 countries around the globe, Starkey is an industry leader in hearing instrument manufacturing. Starkey create top quality diagnostic equipment, hearing protection products, wireless technology and unique hearing solutions for every environment.

The Stereotaxis NIOBE System is used to treat coronary artery disease and abnormal heart rhythms known as arrhythmias. Via digital remote control, doctors steer catheters, guidewires, and stent delivery devices through blood vessels all the way to the chambers of the heart (and all the way back out, if necessary) in a procedure that is less invasive than traditional heart bypass surgery. Stereotaxis markets the cardiology instrument control system to interventional surgery labs (or "cath labs"), research hospitals, and large commercial medical centers worldwide.

STERIS has hygiene hysteria. The company makes sterilization systems for health care, pharmaceutical, research, and industrial markets. In addition to the company's sanitizing lotions and soaps, health care professionals use the firm's steam and chemical sterilization systems to sterilize surgical and diagnostic devices. STERIS also makes disinfection systems and infection prevention consumables. The company sells such surgical support products as exam lights, surgical tables, and scrub sinks. STERIS sells its equipment and consumables in more than 60 countries. In North America, its Isomedix unit also offers contract sterilization for health care, industrial, and consumer products makers.

Straumann Holding AG is a global leader in manufacturing dental implants. The company also makes prosthetics, products for dental tissue regeneration, and the tools and instruments to help install its products. It has introduced a synthetic bone-replacement material to help build up jaw bone in preparation for placing implants, and the company regularly invests in additional research and development efforts. Board member Dr. Thomas Straumann holds about 30% of the company's stock.

Founded in 1984, the company is a part of the worldwide orthopedic medical device firm, Stryker Corporation. Stryker UK offers joint replacements, spinal implants, orthobiologics, powered surgical instruments, surgical navigation systems, and endoscopic products. The company also sells emergency medical transport equipment and distributes medical devices from other firms.

Sunrise Medical, Inc. manufactures and supplies wheelchairs and wheelchair accessories, and replacement parts. Its Quickie wheelchairs range from manual to motorized, adult to child-sized, and from everyday use to sports models for athletes. Its products are targeted for use in both institutional and home use. Sunrise Medical also makes Jay brand cushions and wheelchair backs. The company's A.R.T. division designs and manufactures custom configured seating and positioning equipment. Sunrise Medical markets its products in about 100 countries around the globe through an inside sales force and through distributors.

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