Cascade Metrix (CM) is a medical technology company working within a new paradigm in critical care. The company is commercializing an automated critical care blood analyzer that will revolutionize the bedside testing of hospitalized patients whose care and recovery is dependent on repetitive, around-the-clock measurements of critical blood parameters. This innovative and proprietary ex-vivo blood analysis system is first being applied to the automated measurement of glucose and lactate in critically ill patients.