(Natus: San Carlos, California) -- Natus Medical Inc. recently announced that it was awarded a 2007 Medical Design Excellence Award for its Olympic Cool-Cap head-cooling product for newborn brain injury. The award will be presented to Natus at a ceremony to be held June 13, 2007, in New York City.

Sponsored by Medical Device & Diagnostic Industrymagazine, the Medical Design Excellence Awards competition recognizes companies and individuals for their advances and contributions in medical product design. The Olympic Cool-Cap and other medical devices were evaluated for innovative use of materials, ability of product development teams to overcome design and engineering challenges, user-related functions that improve health care delivery and features that provide enhanced benefits to the patient. Entries were evaluated by a panel of judges with expertise in biomedical engineering, human factors, industrial design, medicine and diagnostics.

The Olympic Cool-Cap is used in conjunction with Natus’ Olympic CFM 6000 Cerebral Function Monitor, which aids in identifying neurological abnormalities such as hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), a condition that can result from an interruption of blood flow and oxygen supply during labor and delivery.

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