Tyco Healthcare
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Tyco Healthcare is the healthcare division of Tyco International, due to be split off in 2007.
Tyco Healthcare has grown by acquisition to become one of the largest healthcare companies in the world. It operates in the surgical devices, medical imaging, medical supplies and pharmaceutical markets. Brands which have been acquired include:
- Sherwood, Davis & Geck sutures
- Unites States Surgical / AutoSuture surgical intruments
- Valleylab electrosurgery equipment
- Syneture wound closure
- Nellcor pulse oximetry
- Puritan Bennett ventilators and respirators
- Kendall patient care products
- Uni-Patch electrotherapy
- Mallinckrodt imaging
- Mallinckrodt pharmaceuticals, including J. T. Baker
- Tyco Retail group
Tyco Healthcare's competitors include Johnson & Johnson, 3M and Bristol Myers Squibb.