FDA Grants Humanitarian Device Exemption Approval to SeaStar Medical’s Selective Cytopheretic Device for Pediatric Acute Kidney Injury
SCD-PED (Pediatric) is the first FDA-approved product in the Company’s Quelimmune™ product family
DENVER, Feb. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — SeaStar Medical Holding Corporation (Nasdaq:ICU), a medical device company developing proprietary solutions to reduce the consequences of hyperinflammation on vital organs, announces that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted a Humanitarian Device Exemption (HDE) Approval Order to the Selective Cytopheretic Device (SCD) Pediatric (SCD-PED) for use in children weighing 10 kilograms or more with acute kidney injury (AKI) due to sepsis or a septic condition requiring kidney replacement therapy (KRT). This is the first product in the Company’s newly branded Quelimmune product family, and the Quelimmune pediatric device can now be commercially marketed as a Humanitarian Use Device (HUD).