In today’s challenging and cost conscious research environment, physicians and researchers world-wide rely on WR Medical Electronics Co. for scientifically validated lab equipment and exceptional support during the life of their trials.

Our Help Desk is responsive and pro-active, with a keen eye towards eliminating down time and keeping sites actively involved in the business of testing subjects and acquiring accurate data. We handle the challenges of international support and exportation, site staff and CRA training, and secure data management.

Quantitative Sensory Testing
The CASE IV QST System is the only laboratory grade device for thermal and vibration threshold detection, providing sensitive, specific, repeatable, and time-efficient measurements of vibration, cooling, warming, and heat-as-pain thresholds. Automated testing and analysis eliminate bias.

CASE IV has been used to study the neurological effects of a variety of compounds in several large trials.

Heart Rate Variability
HRV is the most common measure of cardiovagal function and one of the earliest manifestations of diabetic neuropathy and Parkinson’s disease. Respiration is the most common stimulus used to provoke HRV. WR TestWorks HRV systems provide optimal standardization for HRDB and Valsalva maneuver, with measurements of chest expansion, expiratory pressure, and R-R. Optional beat-to-beat blood pressure measurements are available for the analysis of adrenergic activity.

Sudomotor Measurements
The Q-Sweat measures rate and volume of sweat output from the skin at 4 standardized locations. Indications for use include:
• Detection of distal small-fiber neuropathy
• Detection of autonomic neuropathy
• Detection of sudomotor abnormalities in sympathetically maintained pain

QSART recordings have been used to study several neuropathies, including diabetic neuropathy, multiple system atrophy, pure autonomic failure, Sjogren’s Syndrome, distal small-fiber neuropathy, Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome, Parkinson’s Disease, RSD (CRPS), etc.

Olfactory Evlauation
Anosmia and hyposmia have been noted as early symptoms of AD and idiopathic PD. The SMT System places minimum dependence on language, cognitive ability, memory, and odor naming ability, and differentiates between deficits caused by a loss of primary sensory input and those caused by higher-order processing. The SMT provides a quantified measure of olfactory function that is simple and reliable.

Our pharmaceutical clients know they are partnering with an integrity based firm whose experienced staff can solve the day-to-day issues of trial management.