Medical Device Technologies gets FDA nod for glove puncture alarm system.

A portable, pager-sized, battery-powered electronic device cleared by the FDA just last month will soon be marketed by independent medical distributors and possibly a major glove manufacturer as a means of minimizing contagion in the operating rooms. Medical Device Technologies Inc., San Diego, manufactures the device, known as its Personal Alarm System or PAS, and the fledgling company hopes that it will catch on with surgeons and O.R. supervisors eager to detect a compromise in the integrity of protective barriers of surgeons' gloves and/or gowns, particularly during bloody urological and orthopedic procedures.

The current version of PAS tethers clinicians with a thin …