Winston-Salem-based Carolina Liquid Chemistries has introduced a bench-top analyzer system that allows physicians to monitor their patients for possible over-use of high-powered pain medications.
Carolina Liquid, a 13-year-old firm that develops and sells medical diagnostic reagents and machinery, moved its headquarters to Winston-Salem from California two years ago. It was one of the first tenants to occupy the Piedmont Triad Research Park Wet Lab LaunchPad project in downtown Winston-Salem.
Phil Shugart, president of the firm, said pain management clinics that must monitor patients' use and potential abuse of prescription drugs can now perform drug testing within their own facilities with the company's bench-top analyzer, BioLis 24i.
"By offering the BioLis 24i bench top chemistry analyzer as an option for drugs of abuse monitoring, we are offering pain management clinics an easy to use solution that provides better patient care and makes economic sense for the practice," he said.