Merit Medical Systems (MMSI) Q1 2020 Earnings Call Transcript

Merit Medical Systems (MMSI) Q1 2020 Earnings Call Transcript

Merit Medical Systems ( NASDAQ:MMSI ) Q1 2020 Earnings Call Apr 23, 2020 , 5:00 p.m. ET. , any forward-looking statements represent our views only as of today, April 23, 2020, and should not be relied upon as representing our views as of any other date.. We also saw about the last two weeks of the quarter a slowdown in U.S., and I think these are things that you've been hearing from everybody.. As we move now into the second quarter, that will be a positive, at least coming back to an area that we felt like we would accomplish in our forecast.. We have reduced some headcount, and those are the things that are not pleasant to do.. Discretionary spending and capex and those things, Raul will talk about in just a few minutes.. We've also been using this time to do a lot of training.. It would be our hemodynamic monitoring and other products that have been helpful in the treating of COVID-19 patients, but we've also had those products that would be so-called elective.. I think you would all agree and you're using these tools now that there's a lot of things, and we've learned how to