SOUTHAMPTON, PA, USA, March 19, 2014 - Environmental Tectonics Corporation (OTC Pink: ETCC) ("ETC" or the "Company") announced today that Mr. Ken Rideout, Vice President of ETC's BioMedical Systems, has been selected as a keynote speaker during the Pre-Con Program at the Diabetic Foot Global Conference ("DFCon") in Los Angeles, CA on Wednesday, March 19, 2014.
The focus of the Pre-Con Program is Nuts & Bolts of a Hyperbaric & Wound Care Center. Mr. Rideout will discuss the topics of "Assessing Your Market: Hyperbaric" and "Equipment and Site Selection."
"I am honored to have been chosen to speak on this very important topic in diabetic wound care," states Ken Rideout, "I am looking forward to leaving the audience with some very valuable insight regarding HBOT chamber selection."
ETC's monoplace hyperbaric chambers, provided by the company's ETC BioMedical Systems Group, include BARA·PRESS(TM) and SMOOTH-RIDE(TM). BARA·PRESS is the software which can control, as well as record, the treatment, allowing the operator to monitor the patient more easily, consistently and accurately. SMOOTH-RIDE(TM) is a pressure change technology that enhances patient comfort by reducing the incidence of barotrauma by 67 percent, ensuring more patients complete all their treatment sessions. The BARA-MED "Select" also offers an undercarriage gurney storage area.
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About ETC:
ETC designs, manufactures, and sells software driven products and services used to recreate and monitor the physiological effects of motion on humans, and equipment to control, modify, simulate and measure environmental conditions. Our products include aircrew training systems (aeromedical, tactical combat, and general), disaster management systems, sterilizers (steam and gas), environmental testing products, hyperbaric chambers, and other products that involve similar manufacturing techniques and engineering technologies. ETC's unique ability to offer complete systems, designed and produced to high technical standards, sets it apart from its competition. ETC is headquartered in Southampton, PA. For more information about ETC, visit http://www.etcusa.com/.
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| Contact: | Mark Prudenti, CFO |
| Phone: | 215-355-9100 x1531 |
| E-mail: | mprudenti@etcusa.com |
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