Motus GI Holdings, Inc. announced that Banner Desert Medical Center has purchased and initiated the implementation of the Pure-Vu® System with the aim of improving efficiencies and clinical outcomes of inpatient colonoscopy procedures for patients who present with inadequate bowel preparation. Banner Desert Medical Center is a 615-bed short-term acute care hospital located in Mesa, Arizona. The Pure-Vu System EVS integrates with standard and slim colonoscopes, to improve visualization during colonoscopy while preserving established procedural workflow and techniques.

Through irrigation and evacuation of debris, the Pure-Vu System is designed to provide better-quality exams. Challenges exist for inpatient colonoscopy and endoscopy, particularly for patients who are elderly, with comorbidities, or active bleeds, where the ability to visualize, diagnose and treat is often compromised due to debris, including fecal matter, blood, or blood clots. Motus GI believes this is especially true in high acuity patients, like upper GI bleeds where the existence of blood and blood clots can impair a physician?s view and removing them can be critical in allowing a physician the ability to identify and treat the source of bleeding on a timely basis. Motus GI believes the Pure-Vu System may lead to positive outcomes and lower costs for hospitals by safely and quickly improving visualization of the colon and upper GI tract, enabling effective diagnosis and treatment the first time.

In multiple clinical studies to date, involving the treatment of challenging inpatient and outpatient cases, the Pure-Vu System has consistently helped achieve adequate bowel cleanliness rates greater than 95% following a reduced prep regimen. Colonoscopy, which is the gold-standard screening test for colorectal cancer (CRC), is performed on roughly 15 million people in the U.S. every year. The Pure-Vu EVS System is cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to help facilitate the cleansing of a poorly prepared gastrointestinal tract during colonoscopy.

The Pure-Vu system has received a CE Mark in the EU for use in colonoscopy.