VIPUN Medical
Personalised and safe medical nutrition through stomach monitoring
VIPUN Medical is a privately-owned, KU Leuven spin-off, located in Mechelen, Belgium. We develop a novel method to feed critically ill and other vulnerable patients. The VIPUN™ Gastric Monitoring System aims to make it easy for medical staff to make a well-informed and faster nutrition therapy decision thus reducing malnutrition and feeding-related complications.
Medical Need
Nutritional support is widely accepted as an integral part of patient care, when normal food intake is not possible. Adequate nutrition improves clinical outcomes, while malnutrition is associated with increased morbidity and mortality rates.
Several factors, such as feeding tube positioning problems or gastrointestinal intolerance, contribute to the overall incidence of malnutrition which could be as high as 50% in Intensive Care Units. Even medical staff’s general fear of undiagnosed gastrointestinal intolerance can lead to malnutrition.
Technology
The VIPUN™ Catheter is a double lumen nasogastric balloon catheter with integrated feeding lumen.
The VIPUN™ Control System controls volume and measures air pressure in the balloon, thus providing crucial information about the patients’ stomach motility and
can be used by HCP’s to guide appropriate medical nutrition strategies tailored to the patients gastro intestinal activity.
The VIPUN™ GMS is not available for commercial use in any geography.
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