Shockwave Medical, Inc.
Industry Group: Healthcare
Country/Region: United States of America
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Shockwave Medical Inc is a medical device company focused on developing and commercializing novel technologies that transform the care of patients with cardiovascular disease. It establishes a new standard of care for the treatment of calcified cardiovascular disease (“atherosclerosis”) through differentiated and proprietary local delivery of sonic pressure waves, which refer to as intravascular lithotripsy (“IVL”). Its IVL technology is a minimally invasive, easy-to-use, and safe way to improve outcomes for patients with calcified cardiovascular disease also IVL catheters enables delivery of IVL therapy to diseased vasculature throughout the body for calcium modification.
ESG Risk Rating
Ranking
Industry Group (1st = lowest risk)
Healthcare 266 out of 588
Universe
Global Universe 7039 out of 15080
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