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Bruce Harshe, CEO

Bruce graduated from Ohio State University with an engineering degree and after five years of working as an engineer he returned to the University of Cincinnati to earn his Master Degree in Engineering.

As a power plant engineer working for electrical utilities, Bruce worked on and solved electrical, mechanical and instrument related problem situations at both coal fired and nuclear power plants.

Bruce has written numerous peer reviewed technical articles and papers, has been the recipient of several engineering awards and holds a patent for the Respiration/Tidal Volume Monitor.

When he married Sharon, he became interested in the problems veterinarians faced daily. Because of Sharon's interest in wildlife, he also became interested in the specific problems faced by those working with wildlife and endangered species. This interest resulted in his first instrument design, of a wildlife blood pressure monitor requiring an arterial stick. A veterinarian treating darted lions and other large cats needed to know how the anesthetic had effected the animal, and the arterial blood pressure was considered a good indicator of the plane of anesthesia. The monitor provided a quick indication of an adverse reaction to the anesthetic as well as tracking the rise of the plane of anesthesia alerting personnel the animal would soon wake up. The monitor was also used to monitor the plane of anesthesia in elephants because the thick skin created difficulties with non-invasive techniques, such as Doppler systems.

The second product was the result of Sharon's frustration at the lack of instrumentation for vital signs monitoring. In the mid-1980's, respiration monitoring was limited primarily to esophageal stethoscopes. They had a nasty habit of generating odd and distracting sounds during surgery and creating an ear piercing scream resulting from feedback between the microphone and the monitor's speaker. Sharon found this very annoying and remarked someone should come up with something better for veterinarians.

As a result, Bruce started development of the first all electronic respiration monitor which was a direct measure of the volume of air flowing to and from the patient. It was also planned that the monitor could be battery powered to support field efforts. This new technology for the first time also permitted monitoring species (such as avian and reptile species) too small for microphones. These were the very species veterinarians like Sharon, who worked with wildlife, were encountering.

Since the monitor worked well with regular small animals such as dogs and cats, the quality of medicine was improved for all veterinarians, not just those working with wildlife and endangered species (such as occurs at zoos). The people involved in the development and testing of the first units felt they had contributed to something worthwhile.

After the introduction of the monitor, the next series of developments involved the lifting and the transport of larger patients. Again this was the result of input from Sharon, who has a bad back. The first product offered by the company was a flexible stretcher, which Sharon had made several years earlier. This was followed by a series of lifting transport tables, most of which were custom for each veterinarian.

Bruce Harshe, CEO

Since that time, Bruce who is a very hands on engineer, has developed new products and made design improvements based primarily on input from existing customers.

If you have a new application for one of our products or have need for a product that we do not have...please contact us...we usually can help.