Today marked a historic moment as the first Makoto IVUS+NIRS sets sail from the Infraredx, a Nipro company – from the loading dock, en route to Australia.

We are thrilled to welcome back NIRS and Extended Bandwidth IVUS to the continent that witnessed their groundbreaking beginnings. In 2014, Adelaide saw the first evaluation of the world’s 2nd-to-market High Definition IVUS in patients.

Notably, this was where the very first NIRS corelab for data analysis was established, thanks to the pioneering efforts of Steve Nicholls at SAHMRI.

Fast forward to today, and the enthusiasm for these techniques has ignited strong interest in Japan, with some of the highest volume users and programs embracing this technology.

The future looks bright as we embark on this new chapter of medical advancement in Australia. Stay tuned for updates on this exciting journey!

We are pleased to announce an auspicious occasion as Nipro Sales Thailand proudly unveils its new Khon Kaen office. This momentous event marks a significant milestone for the company, representing our commitment to expansion and growth in the region.

Nipro, a global leader in healthcare solutions, has been at the forefront of innovation and catering to diverse medical needs for healthcare professionals and patients. With an unwavering dedication to improving the lives of patients worldwide, our organization has consistently pursued excellence in research, development, and manufacturing.

Against this backdrop, the establishment of the Nipro Sales Thailand’s Khon Kaen office opens up new horizons for our operations, further cementing our presence in Southeast Asia. This strategic move not only strengthens our ability to serve the local market but also reinforces our position as a trusted partner in the global healthcare community.

Khon Kaen, a vibrant city known for its rich cultural heritage and thriving economy, was carefully chosen as the site for our expansion. The city’s dynamic environment and growing medical landscape provide an ideal backdrop for Nipro’s continued growth. By establishing a local presence, we aim to foster closer collaboration with healthcare professionals, researchers, and industry partners in Khon Kaen and the surrounding areas.

The opening ceremony of the Nipro Sales Thailand Khon Kaen office promises to be a moment of celebration, bringing together distinguished guests, esteemed colleagues, and influential figures from the medical community. The event will showcase our state-of-the-art facilities, which have been designed to foster innovation and collaboration, driving us towards even greater advancements in healthcare technology.

Furthermore, the inauguration will provide an opportunity to highlight our commitment to corporate social responsibility. As a responsible corporate citizen, Nipro is dedicated to contributing to the well-being of the communities in which we operate. Through various initiatives and partnerships, we aim to make a positive impact on the lives of individuals in Khon Kaen and beyond.

We invite you to join us on this remarkable journey as we celebrate the opening of the Nipro Sales Thailand Khon Kaen office. Stay tuned for further updates as we embark on a new chapter of growth, innovation, and collaboration in healthcare.

 

On 24th March 2023, An Giang Central General Hospital held an inauguration ceremony of RO water system – Phoenix one DS + and the Workshop titled, “Cardiovascular: Renal – metabolic syndrome”.

This is one of the largest RO water system used in artificial kidney dialysis in South East Asia. Water is an indispensable part of dialysis – but in order to avoid complications, it should be of an ultra-pure quality.

The renowned An Giang Hospital in Vietnam, providing dialysis to about 350 patients regularly, understands this and recently installed Nipro’s Phoenix One DS – a single-stage reverse osmosis (RO) system – to provide better treatment to its patients. The Phoenix One DS is the first high-end product for this market and will provide quality treatment to patients.

On the day of the inauguration, there was also a renal seminar that attracted over 230 doctors. On this historic occasion, Nipro Vietnam was present in great numbers. Joining in attendance from Nipro’s regional team were Mahendra Gunatilleke, Rüdiger Tille and Jesus Garcia Martin.

Here’s the news report of the grand inauguration that was aired on a local television channel in Vietnam: http://ow.ly/NiiZ50NNJop – you can choose to view it with subtitles (CC) or preferred auto-translation.

Inauguration ceremony of RO water system – Phoenix one DS + at An Giang Central General Hospital

Workshop titled, “Cardiovascular: Renal – metabolic syndrome”.

Date: 15 – 16 April 2023

Venue: Novotel Singapore on Stevens, Polaris Ballroom, Level 1
28 Stevens Rd, Singapore 257878

Congress & Exhibition Hours:
Saturday, 15 April 2023, 0830 – 1730 hrs
Sunday, 16 April 2023, 0830 – 1215 hrs

Come visit Nipro’s booth this weekend at APAC 2023 in Singapore.

The Asia Primary Angioplasty Congress (APAC) is a dedicated primary angioplasty meeting in the region. Don’t miss out.

Congress information:

https://www.apac.sg

WORLD CONGRESS OF NEPHROLOGY (WCN’23)

Overview
Nipro will be participating in the World Congress of Nephrology (WCN), which is an annual scientific, educational, and networking meeting of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN). Come check us out at our booth as there will be many activities awaiting for you. Mark you calendar and we hope to see you there soon!

Date: 30th March – 2nd April 2023
Time: 08:00AM-08:00PM in Bangkok, Thailand Time (GMT+7)
Venue: Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, Bangkok, Thailand
Booth: Ballroom, Plenary Hall , Level 1, Booth #14
Activities: Vascular workshop, iMEP Thailand training courses & Renal care portfolio

Register your interest

Fill in this form if you’d like us to follow up with you after event:

ISN WCN 2023 website:
https://www.theisn.org/wcn

Nipro Asia participated in the 32nd Singapore Live – Asia’s pre-eminent annual live course in cardiac interventions that was held at the Raffles City Convention Centre in Singapore from the from the 12th – 14th of January. 900 local and regional delegates from over 34 countries participated this year.

This marks the first time that Nipro has participated in a SingLIVE event with an expanding vascular intervention portfolio that was featured during a live case, an event booth, and a symposium. On the first day of the event at 10:15a.m., alive case using the Makoto Intravascular Imaging System and Aperta NSE was live streamed by the NHCS.

The live case was performed by Clinical Associate Prof. Jack Tan and his team from the National Heart Centre. The NHCS operation team showcased the Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS)-guided Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI), its application as a coronary imaging tool as well as tips and tricks on its utilization. Makoto utilizes NIRS in combination with intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is a state-of-the-art technology developed for coronary lipid-plaque characterization.

Recent studies have evaluated its clinical utility as well as how to integrate its use into clinical practice. The information for the prediction of the major adverse cardiac event (MACE) was something new and more than 100 audience members gathered to see the live case, which brought the discussion among the panelists on how the information provided by Makoto could change the treatment plan.

The day followed with Nipro’s symposium titled “Seeing is believing: Lesion preparation and Lipid core detection”. The in-depth presentation was made by A. Prof. Kosuke Koyama who talked about clinical studies of IVUS-NIRS technology, and Dr. Satoru Tohara who presented findings about Aperta NSE as a preferred scoring balloon.

SEEING IS BELIEVING

Lesion Preparation and Lipid Core Detection in Daily Practice

Date: 12th January 2023
Time: 14:00-15:00 in Singapore Standard Time (GMT+8)
Venue: Sophia Ballroom, Raffles City Convention Centre, Singapore

Objective
– Understand the utility of a scoring balloon in clinical practice.
– Learn the utility of IVUS-NIRS (Near Infrared Spectroscopy) in daily practice.

Programme
Chairperson: LIM Soo Teik
Panelists:  AL FAZIR Omar, Kohei KOYAMA, Jack TAN, Satoru TOHARA

• Opening by LIM Soo Teik
• Clinical advantage of NIRS-IVUS guided PCI by Kohei KOYAMA
• Panel discussion
• Clinical utility of Aperta NSE – my preferred choice of  scoring balloon by Satoru TOHARA
• Panel discussion
• Closing by LIM Soo Teik

LIVE CASE of IVUS + NIRS Imaging with makoto

The latest technologies provided by NIPRO will be live-streamed
by the National Heart Centre, Singapore.

• Live case from National Heart Centre Singapore Operator: Jack TAN, KEH Yann Shan
• Panel discussions

Time: 10:15-11:10 in Singapore Standard Time (GMT+8)
Venue: Stamford Ballroom, Raffles City Convention Centre, Singapore

Invitation PDF:
SingaporeLIVE2023-flyer-Jan2023.pdf

Singapore Live 2023 Programme:
https://www.singlivecourse.com/

Notice of Establishment of Medical Device Sales Subsidiary in the Philippines

We are pleased to announce that one of its consolidated subsidiaries, Nipro Asia Pte. Ltd. (Head office: Singapore, President: Seigo Tsuchiya), has established a medical device sales subsidiary—Nipro Medical Philippines Corp.—in the Republic of the Philippines.

Sales are scheduled to begin at this new subsidiary in January 2023. Nipro Asia has been actively selling medical devices in the Philippines, an ASEAN member with a rapidly growing economy, mainly through local distributors. However, in December 2021, Nipro Asia established a sales subsidiary in Manila, the largest city in the Philippines, in anticipation of further market expansion.

Nipro Asia intends to further enhance the presence of the NIPRO brand by establishing a direct sales system for the company’s dialysis products, by strengthening the promotion of the sale of hospital products, vascular products, and infection control products, and by providing attentive services with deep community ties.

Overview of New Subsidiary

On November 4th 2022, a one-day continuous medical education (CME) for dialysis staffs was held in Kathmandu, Nepal.

With the full cooperation and assistance of Nepal Police Hospital, the CME was hosted at the hospital by Nipro Asia Pte Ltd Nepal Liaison Office (NIPRO) and its distributor G.H. Medihealth Concern Pvt Ltd, inviting 46 staffs from 9 hospitals in Kathmandu.

“In order to provide better service to patients, we have wanted to provide opportunities to dialysis nurses and technicians to have education on dialysis service and we are glad that we hosted such opportunity here at our hospital.”, said Dr. Diba Sharma, the chief dialysis unit nephrologist at Nepal Police Hospital.

“In Nepal, education to dialysis staffs used to be provided periodically by the government leading hospitals but it has been suspended since the pandemic of the COVID-19. Our staffs voluntarily from time to time held the knowledge sharing time among staffs but it seemed it was not sufficient in terms of receiving fresh knowledge. We have used NIPRO’s dialysis machines since 2008, and that’s why we asked NIPRO if they can hold a CME for us”, she continued.

She also proposed to invite staffs from other government hospitals as the lack of opportunities to receive education is the problem that every hospital is facing. Thanks to the generosity of Dr. Asha Singh, the Medical Director of Nepal Police Hospital, nurses and technicians from 8 government hospitals besides Police Hospital were invited to the CME and the 45 staffs participated in the tender.

The CME was started with the opening statement by Dr. Asha Singh and Dr. Diba Sharma, followed by technical training on NIPRO dialysis machine “Surdial 55Plus” by Er. Sishir Humagain, Service Engineer of Nipro Asia Nepal Liason Office, and workshop on vascular access care and technique by Mr. Anthony Inbaraj, Clinical Manager of Nipro Asia Pte Ltd.

The technical training was targeted to technicians focusing on structures of circuits and troubleshooting so that technicians can make proper analysis in case of errors in daily practice, while the workshop provides epidemiology, statistics regarding vascular access and hands-on session of access technique.

Although it was the first CME hosted at a hospital, the CME ended with satisfaction of participants, who feedbacked positively;

“This CME was a great opportunity and experience to better understand the machines”,
“These type of training programs should be encouraged and done again”,
“Understanding on the diagram and circuit of the machines is helpful in troubleshooting”,
“Statistical data of vascular access was new to me and quite interesting”.

“NIPRO has been in Nepal for more than 10 years and we recently established a liaison office. We are ready to provide better service than anyone in the market. As some customer feedbacked, the education must be continuous. We are going to provide CME not only in Kathmandu but also in provincial areas and this is the first step”, concluded Mr. Tsuchiya Seigo, Managing Director of Nipro Asia Pte Ltd.

 

Virtual Presentation

Topic

Elastomeric pump – Bringing homecare to the next level

Time

Oct 19, 2022, 3.00PM (GMT +8) in Singapore

Agenda

1) Surefuser+ homecare clinical application areas.
2) Instruction of use for Surefuser+
3)Advantages and benefits of Surefuser+ vs. competition

Speakers