Kirsty is a qualified engineer with a background in product development and project management in the healthcare industry. She has successfully managed products from concept to commercialisation, working with teams, both large and small and managing multi-million dollar budgets. Her commitment to Softcell Medical and her belief in the value of the pH probe to clinicians across the world has given he the motivation to get the company to where it is today, having successfully secured seed funding to move to the next stage of product development.

In addition to his role within Softcell, Alan is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon working in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, an internationally recognised teaching hospital. Alan is a world expert in using pH for soft tissue monitoring. He is well established on the international lecturing circuit and has many contacts with clinicians in a number of clinical fields.

The pH monitoring system can be used in any clinical field where real time tissue monitoring of soft tissue health is required, but especially for acutely injured patients, patients with vascular disease, patients undergoing surgery, and for those admitted to intensive care units with multiple health issues.

pH monitoring is a portable technology that provides accurate real time information about patients who have sustained injuries in remote environments such as rural communities, the mountainside, and at the roadside where the immediate emergency medical response is limited.

Real time pH monitoring also has a role in improving the early assessment and treatment of seriously injured servicemen resulting from combat. Initial successful experiments have been conducted in association with the military to assess the role of pH for guiding resuscitative efforts.

The pH monitoring system has obvious uses in veterinary work, very much in line with the human uses, at the discretion of the treating veterinary surgeon.