Tensys® Medical Inc. receives the 2005 GOOD DESIGN™ Award for Medical Equipment from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design

San Diego, CA | March 31, 2006 -- Tensys Medical Inc. (www.tensysmedical.com), the leader in continuous, non-invasive blood pressure monitoring, is pleased to receive the GOOD DESIGN™ award for Medical Equipment 2005. A distinguished jury of design professionals from New York recognized the Tensys® T-Line® as an advancement in medical technology beyond standard consumer design. This award acknowledges industrial design firms and manufacturers in over 20 countries, thereby elevating the best and finest new design innovation for products and graphics designed and manufactured as of 2002 to the present.

The Tensys® T-Line® is an innovative, continuous, non-invasive blood pressure monitor for numerous clinical settings. It provides reliable blood pressure data which is clinically equivalent to that of an invasive arterial cannula. This tool provides clinicians the ability to quickly recognize unanticipated hemodynamic changes and provide immediate intervention with beat-to-beat visibility to the patient's response.

The GOOD DESIGN program, founded in 1950, is the world's oldest and most celebrated awards program. It recognizes designers and manufacturers from the international community for advancing new and innovative product concepts. The GOOD DESIGN Show, the annual exhibition of the awards, is scheduled to open in early summer 2006 at the Chicago Athenaeum, the only architecture and design museum in the United States.

"This award acknowledges the tremendous effort put forth over the years from all those at Tensys®. We are pleased to receive this award and strive to improve patient safety with the T-Line® device" said Chris Jones CEO, Tensys® Medical Inc.

About Tensys® Medical

Tensys® Medical, Inc. is the leader in real-time blood pressure management. The Tensys® T-Line®, the company's lead product, was cleared by the FDA in November 2002 for non-invasive, continuous real-time blood pressure monitoring.

The Tensys® T-Line® measures a patient's blood pressure at the radial artery. It offers anesthesiologists better, more effective control over patient safety during surgery by allowing them to quickly monitor and manage blood pressure variations. The T-Line® provides continuous, real-time data and has clinically equivalent accuracy to that of the arterial line (A-line). The device is based on Tensymetry®, the company's proprietary and patented technology for non-invasively extracting the continuous, beat-to-beat pressure waveform from the radial artery without the use of any external calibration device. The science of Tensymetry® is the result of over eight years of research and development

Tensys® Medical is based in San Diego, California and was founded in November 1995. For more information, please visit the company's Web site at www.tensysmedical.com.

Company Contacts:

Patti Duffy
Manager Customer Service
888.722.7800 ext.1
support@tensysmedical.com