Utah Medical Products Inc.

Utah Medical Products, Inc. ( UTMD or the Company ) is in the business of producing high quality cost-effective medical devices that are predominantly differentiated by safety and improved patient outcomes. Throughout this report, UTMD or the Company refers jointly to Utah Medical Products, Inc. and all of its corporate subsidiaries. Success depends on 1) recognizing and responding to needs of clinicians and patients, 2) rapidly designing or acquiring economical solutions that gain premarketing regulatory concurrence, 3) reliably producing devices that meet those clinical needs, and then 4) selling through a) UTMD's own direct channels into markets where the Company enjoys an established reputation and has a critical mass of sales and support resources, or b) relationships with other companies that have the resources to effectively distribute and support the Company's devices. UTMD's success in providing reliable solutions comes from its proven ability to integrate a number of engineering and technical disciplines in electronics, software, mechanical assembly and packaging, instrumentation, plastics processing and materials. The resulting differentiated devices represent significant incremental improvements in patient safety, clinical outcomes and/or total cost over preexisting clinical approaches. UTMD's experience is that, in the case of labor-saving devices, the improvement in cost-effectiveness of clinical procedures also leads to an improvement in overall healthcare including lower risk of complications.