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of Tyco Telecommunications is on maintenance services on existing systems and selling bandwidth
capacity on the TGN.
III. Healthcare
Tyco is a world leader in the medical products industry and has a strong leadership position in the
plastics industry. With fiscal 2002 revenues of $7,899.1 million, our Healthcare businesses comprise
approximately 22% of our total revenues from continuing operations. The group’s products include:
• a wide variety of medical devices and supplies, including laparoscopic instruments; sutures and
surgical staplers; electro-surgical instruments; pulse oximeters; ventilators; imaging reagents;
needles and syringes;
• products for vascular therapy and wound care; bulk and unit dose pharmaceuticals; and
• retail brand adult incontinence care, infant care and feminine hygiene products.
Tyco Healthcare Group
The Tyco Healthcare Group consists of seven primary business units: Medical, Surgical,
Respiratory, Imaging, Pharmaceutical, Retail and International.
The Medical Division consists primarily of Kendall, Sherwood and Ludlow Technical Products.
Tyco Healthcare’s Medical Division manufactures and markets a broad range of wound care products;
needles and syringes; sharps disposables; vascular therapy products; electrodes; operating room kits and
trays; urological care products; enteral feeding products; incontinence care products; and nursing care
products to hospitals, surgi-centers, alternate care facilities and homes.
The Medical Division consists of many market-leading brands such as KERLIX and CURITY
wound care dressings, WINGS adult incontinence products, SCD compression devices, T.E.D.
anti-embolism stockings, MONOJECT needles and syringes, SHARPSAFETY needle stick prevention
products and KANGAROO enteral feedings systems. Ludlow Technical Products’ significant brands are
DEVON O.R. surgical kits, and MEDI-TRACE diagnostic and monitoring electrodes.
The Surgical Division comprises the following companies: United States Surgical, Davis & Geck
(‘‘USS/DG’’), Valleylab and Radionics. This group of companies develops, manufactures and markets a
broad spectrum of widely recognized surgical products that are used in operating rooms worldwide.
Some of these products are also used in emergency rooms, surgi-centers and physician offices.
U.S. Surgical is a market leader in innovative wound closure products and advanced surgical
devices. Its Auto Suture division offers a complete line of surgical devices and laparoscopic instruments
for general and specialty procedures. Its USS/DG division offers a fully integrated suture line that
combines U.S. Surgical’s reputation as an innovator with Davis & Geck’s century of specialized suture
experience. Leading brand names for U.S. Surgical include ENDO GIA and VITAL VUE endoscopic
instruments, DEXON sutures and PREMIUM skin staplers.
Valleylab is a leading manufacturer and marketer of a wide array of electro-surgical and ultrasonic
devices, as is Radionics, which produces devices for neurosurgery, neurological pain treatment and
radiation therapy. Among Valleylab and Radionics’ leading brand names are the FORCE FX electro-
surgical generator; the LIGASURE vessel occlusion system; the CUSA EXCEL ultrasonic surgical
system; and the COOL-TIP RF system.
Tyco Healthcare’s Respiratory Group consists of the Nellcor, Mallinckrodt Critical Care and
Puritan Bennett businesses. This division develops and markets an extensive line of products and
services that: help facilitate and monitor anesthesia; diagnose and treat respiratory disease; and provide
life support for critically ill patients. These products are sold around the world and are used in the
hospital and the home.
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