Independent Study Validates ENvue's (FEED) Navigation Platform, Showing Major Safety and Cost Benefits Across Five Hospitals

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ENvue Medical (FEED) is a commercial-stage medical device company currently deployed across 40 U.S. hospitals, focused on one of the leading causes of preventable harm in the ICU: feeding tube misplacement. 

Feeding tubes are traditionally inserted without real-time guidance, and blind placement results in accidental airway entry in an estimated 1.2% to 3.2% of cases. When a tube enters the lungs instead of the digestive tract, the consequences can include ventilator-associated pneumonia, a serious and potentially fatal infection. ENvue's navigation platform was built to replace that standard with real-time electromagnetic guidance at the bedside.

On June 3, 2026, an independent peer-reviewed study validating that approach was published in Critical Care Nurse, the official journal of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses. The study tracked ENvue's platform across 5 hospitals within Inova Health System, a mid-Atlantic regional health system, across 531 consecutive feeding tube placements in the first year of use.

The Results Were Strongly Positive Across Every Measured Outcome

Across 531 consecutive placements, there were zero accidental insertions into patients' lungs. Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) cases fell 67 percent, and hospital-acquired aspiration pneumonia dropped 20 percent. X-rays needed to confirm placement decreased by 20 percent, reducing both delays in patient nutrition and unnecessary radiation exposure. Over 350 nursing hours were saved. Based on AHRQ benchmarks, ENvue estimates that those outcomes avoided over $1.5 million in hospital costs in the first year.

Unlike most new clinical technology, which typically requires additional operators to implement, ENvue's platform required no additional staffing at any of the five sites. In a post-implementation survey, nearly all clinicians said they would recommend the system, indicating genuine clinical acceptance for practitioners and administrators alike.

"We believe this is a landmark study demonstrating how our real-time feeding tube guidance platform significantly improves safety and enables hospitals to function more efficiently," said Doron Besser, MD, Chief Executive Officer of ENvue Medical. "Given the serious risks for both patients and hospitals, blind feeding tube placement is no longer acceptable as a standard of care."

Publication in the Official Journal of the AACN Strengthens the Case for Wider Hospital Adoption

Critical Care Nurse is the official journal of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, which represents more than 120,000 nurses across the U.S. Publishing there puts ENvue's results directly in front of the clinical leaders who influence purchasing and protocol decisions at hospital systems. The study's authors were independent researchers with no financial ties to ENvue.

The study also documented a capability previously out of reach for most ICU teams: bedside postpyloric feeding access, a more targeted placement that typically requires interventional radiology, achieved here without additional staffing or a radiology referral.

"We believe data like this accelerates the clinical and institutional case for adoption of ENvue's platform," Besser said, "and we expect it to directly support our commercialization efforts, driving the onboarding of new hospitals and expanding our commercial footprint across health systems nationwide."

The Bull Case for FEED

• Peer-reviewed independent academic validation. Published in the AACN's official journal by authors with no financial ties to ENvue.
• Clear cost savings and scalable economics. Over $1.5 million in estimated cost avoidance in the first year, 350-plus nursing hours recovered, and 20 percent fewer imaging procedures.
• Immediate patient safety improvement with zero airway insertions. Across 531 consecutive placements at a five-hospital system, VAP cases dropped 67 percent with no accidental lung insertions.
• Nursing hours saved without increasing headcount. More than 350 hours were recovered in the first year with no additional staffing required across any ICU environment in the study.

This successful single-hospital study, showing results this consistent, published independently and embraced by the clinicians who used it, creates a credible foundation for ENvue to expand its platform across health systems nationwide.

The full study is available at https://www.barcharttrk.com/8LJN3/35C24MW/?uid=1364. 

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