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<P ALIGN="RIGHT"><FONT SIZE=2><B>Registration No.&nbsp;333-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </B></FONT></P>

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<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=5><B>Securities and Exchange Commission<BR>  </B></FONT><FONT SIZE=2><B>Washington, D.C. 20549  </B></FONT></P>

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<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=5><B>FORM S-8  </B></FONT></P>

<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=2><B>REGISTRATION STATEMENT<BR>
Under<BR>
The Securities Act of 1933  </B></FONT></P>

<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=5><B>ALARIS MEDICAL,&nbsp;INC.<BR>  </B></FONT><FONT SIZE=2>(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) </FONT></P>

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<TD WIDTH="49%" ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=2><B>Delaware<BR> </B></FONT><FONT SIZE=2>(State or other jurisdiction of<BR>
incorporation or organization)</FONT></TD>
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<TD WIDTH="49%" ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=2><B>13-3492624<BR> </B></FONT><FONT SIZE=2>(I.R.S. Employer<BR>
Identification Number)</FONT></TD>
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<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=2>10221
Wateridge Circle<BR>
San Diego, California 92121<BR>
(858)&nbsp;458-7000<BR></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2>(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including<BR>
area code, of registrant's principal executive offices) </FONT></P>

<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=2>Non-Employee
Director Stock Option Plan<BR>
(formerly, ALARIS Medical,&nbsp;Inc. Third Amended and Restated 1990 Non-Qualified Stock Option Plan for Non-Employee Directors)<BR>
(Full title of the plan) </FONT></P>

<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=2>Stuart
E. Rickerson, Esq.<BR>
ALARIS Medical,&nbsp;Inc.<BR>
10221 Wateridge Circle<BR>
San Diego, California 92121<BR>
(858)&nbsp;458-7000<BR>
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,<BR>
including area code, of agent for service) </FONT></P>

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<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=2><B>Copy to:  </B></FONT></P>

<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=2>Marjorie Sybul Adams, Esq.<BR>
Piper Rudnick LLP<BR>
1251 Avenue of the Americas<BR>
New York, New York 10021<BR>
(212)&nbsp;835-6000 </FONT></P>

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<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=2><B>Calculation of Registration Fee  </B></FONT></P>

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<TD WIDTH="34%"><FONT SIZE=2>Common Stock, $.01 par value</FONT></TD>
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<TD WIDTH="13%" ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=2>1,000,000</FONT></TD>
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<TD WIDTH="18%" ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=2>$6.605</FONT></TD>
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<TD WIDTH="17%" ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=2>$6,605,000</FONT></TD>
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<TD WIDTH="14%" ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=2>$607.66</FONT></TD>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>(1)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to Rule&nbsp;416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), this Registration Statement also covers such additional
securities of ALARIS Medical,&nbsp;Inc. ("Registrant") as may become issuable under the Non-Employee Director Stock Option Plan (the "Plan") to prevent dilution resulting from stock
splits, stock dividends and similar events. </FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE=2>(2)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant
to Rule&nbsp;457 of the Securities Act, these amounts are used solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee. Such amounts are based upon the average of the
high and low per share prices of the Registrant's Common Stock on June&nbsp;17, 2002, as reported on the American Stock Exchange. </FONT></P>

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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This Registration Statement registers additional shares of Registrant's Common Stock issuable under the Plan. Registrant previously filed Registration Statements on
Form&nbsp;S-8 with the Securities and Exchange Commission with respect to 500,000 shares of its Common Stock issuable under the Plan. In accordance with General Instruction E to
Form&nbsp;S-8, the contents of the Registration Statement on Form&nbsp;S-8 (File No.&nbsp;333-73812) filed by Registrant with the Securities and Exchange
Commission on November&nbsp;20, 2001, with respect to securities offered pursuant to the Plan, are hereby incorporated by reference. </FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In
addition, all documents subsequently filed by Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act prior to the filing of a post-effective
amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which removes from registration all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this
Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be
deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed
to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a
part of this Registration Statement. </FONT></P>

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<TD WIDTH="12%" ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=2>4.1</FONT></TD>
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<TD WIDTH="85%"><FONT SIZE=2>Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Registrant, as amended (filed herewith)</FONT></TD>
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By-Laws of Registrant, as amended (incorporated by reference to Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 8, 2001 for the quarter ended June 30, 2001)</FONT></TD>
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5.1</FONT></TD>
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Opinion of Piper Rudnick LLP (filed herewith)</FONT></TD>
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Consent of Piper Rudnick LLP (included in opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1)</FONT></TD>
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23.2</FONT></TD>
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Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (filed herewith)</FONT></TD>
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Power of Attorney (contained on the signature page)</FONT></TD>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form&nbsp;S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of New
York, State of New York, on this 20<SUP>th</SUP> day of June, 2002. </FONT></P>

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/s/&nbsp;&nbsp;David L. Schlotterbeck&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><HR NOSHADE><FONT SIZE=2> David L. Schlotterbeck<BR>
President and Chief Executive Officer</FONT></TD>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints David L. Schlotterbeck and William C. Bopp and Stuart E. Rickerson and each of them (with full
power to each of them to act alone), his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and
stead, in any and all capacities to sign on his behalf individually and in each capacity stated below any amendment, including post-effective amendments, to this Registration Statement
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and to file the same with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents and either of them, or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. </FONT></P>


<P><FONT SIZE=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated. </FONT></P>

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<TD WIDTH="45%"><FONT SIZE=2>/s/&nbsp;&nbsp;David L. Schlotterbeck&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><HR NOSHADE><FONT SIZE=2> David L. Schlotterbeck</FONT></TD>
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<TD WIDTH="33%"><FONT SIZE=2>President, Chief Executive Officer and Director</FONT></TD>
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/s/&nbsp;&nbsp;Hank Brown&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><HR NOSHADE><FONT SIZE=2> Hank Brown</FONT></TD>
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Director</FONT></TD>
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June 20, 2002</FONT></TD>
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/s/&nbsp;&nbsp;Henry Green&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><HR NOSHADE><FONT SIZE=2> Henry Green</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="2%" VALIGN="TOP"><FONT SIZE=2><BR>&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
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Director</FONT></TD>
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June 20, 2002</FONT></TD>
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/s/&nbsp;&nbsp;Barry D. Shalov&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><HR NOSHADE><FONT SIZE=2> Barry D. Shalov</FONT></TD>
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Director</FONT></TD>
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June 20, 2002</FONT></TD>
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/s/&nbsp;&nbsp;William T. Tumber&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><HR NOSHADE><FONT SIZE=2> William T. Tumber</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="2%" VALIGN="TOP"><FONT SIZE=2><BR>&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
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Director</FONT></TD>
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June 20, 2002</FONT></TD>
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/s/&nbsp;&nbsp;Norman Dean&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><HR NOSHADE><FONT SIZE=2> Norman Dean</FONT></TD>
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Director and Chairman of the Board</FONT></TD>
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June 20, 2002</FONT></TD>
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/s/&nbsp;&nbsp;William C. Bopp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><HR NOSHADE><FONT SIZE=2> William C. Bopp</FONT></TD>
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Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer)</FONT></TD>
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June 20, 2002</FONT></TD>
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/s/&nbsp;&nbsp;Robert F. Mathews&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><HR NOSHADE><FONT SIZE=2> Robert F. Mathews</FONT></TD>
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Vice President&#151;Finance and Treasurer (Principal Accounting Officer)</FONT></TD>
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June 20, 2002</FONT></TD>
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<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE=2>EXHIBITS<BR>
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TO<BR>
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REGISTRATION STATEMENT<BR>
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ON FORM S-8<BR>
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OF<BR>
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ALARIS MEDICAL,&nbsp;INC. </FONT></P>

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4.1</FONT></TD>
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Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Registrant, as amended (filed herewith)</FONT></TD>
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4.2</FONT></TD>
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By-Laws of Registrant, as amended (incorporated by reference to Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 8, 2001 for the quarter ended June 30, 2001)</FONT></TD>
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5.1</FONT></TD>
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<TD WIDTH="89%"><FONT SIZE=2><BR>
Opinion of Piper Rudnick LLP (filed herewith)</FONT></TD>
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23.1</FONT></TD>
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Consent of Piper Rudnick LLP (included in opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1)</FONT></TD>
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23.2</FONT></TD>
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<TD WIDTH="89%"><FONT SIZE=2><BR>
Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (filed herewith)</FONT></TD>
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Registration No. 333-
Securities and Exchange Commission
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Under
The Securities Act of 1933
ALARIS MEDICAL, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
13-3492624
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)
10221
Wateridge Circle
San Diego, California 92121
(858) 458-7000
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including
area code, of registrant's principal executive offices)
Non-Employee
Director Stock Option Plan
(formerly, ALARIS Medical, Inc. Third Amended and Restated 1990 Non-Qualified Stock Option Plan for Non-Employee Directors)
(Full title of the plan)
Stuart
E. Rickerson, Esq.
ALARIS Medical, Inc.
10221 Wateridge Circle
San Diego, California 92121
(858) 458-7000
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,
including area code, of agent for service)
Copy to:
Marjorie Sybul Adams, Esq.
Piper Rudnick LLP
1251 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10021
(212) 835-6000
Calculation of Registration Fee
Title of securities
to be registered
Amount to be
registered (1)
Proposed maximum
offering price per
share (2)
Proposed maximum
aggregate offering price (2)
Amount of
registration fee
Common Stock, $.01 par value
1,000,000
$6.605
$6,605,000
$607.66
(1)    Pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), this Registration Statement also covers such additional
securities of ALARIS Medical, Inc. ("Registrant") as may become issuable under the Non-Employee Director Stock Option Plan (the "Plan") to prevent dilution resulting from stock
splits, stock dividends and similar events.
(2)    Pursuant
to Rule 457 of the Securities Act, these amounts are used solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee. Such amounts are based upon the average of the
high and low per share prices of the Registrant's Common Stock on June 17, 2002, as reported on the American Stock Exchange.
This Registration Statement registers additional shares of Registrant's Common Stock issuable under the Plan. Registrant previously filed Registration Statements on
Form S-8 with the Securities and Exchange Commission with respect to 500,000 shares of its Common Stock issuable under the Plan. In accordance with General Instruction E to
Form S-8, the contents of the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-73812) filed by Registrant with the Securities and Exchange
Commission on November 20, 2001, with respect to securities offered pursuant to the Plan, are hereby incorporated by reference.
In
addition, all documents subsequently filed by Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act prior to the filing of a post-effective
amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which removes from registration all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this
Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be
deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed
to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a
part of this Registration Statement.
EXHIBITS
Exhibit
Number
Description of Exhibit
4.1
Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Registrant, as amended (filed herewith)
4.2
By-Laws of Registrant, as amended (incorporated by reference to Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 8, 2001 for the quarter ended June 30, 2001)
5.1
Opinion of Piper Rudnick LLP (filed herewith)
23.1
Consent of Piper Rudnick LLP (included in opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1)
23.2
Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (filed herewith)
24.1
Power of Attorney (contained on the signature page)
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of New
York, State of New York, on this 20
th
day of June, 2002.
ALARIS MEDICAL, INC.
By:
/s/  David L. Schlotterbeck
David L. Schlotterbeck
President and Chief Executive Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints David L. Schlotterbeck and William C. Bopp and Stuart E. Rickerson and each of them (with full
power to each of them to act alone), his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and
stead, in any and all capacities to sign on his behalf individually and in each capacity stated below any amendment, including post-effective amendments, to this Registration Statement
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and to file the same with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents and either of them, or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signatures
Title
Date
/s/  David L. Schlotterbeck
David L. Schlotterbeck
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
June 20, 2002
/s/  Hank Brown
Hank Brown
Director
June 20, 2002
/s/  Henry Green
Henry Green
Director
June 20, 2002
/s/  Barry D. Shalov
Barry D. Shalov
Director
June 20, 2002
/s/  William T. Tumber
William T. Tumber
Director
June 20, 2002
/s/  Norman Dean
Norman Dean
Director and Chairman of the Board
June 20, 2002
/s/  William C. Bopp
William C. Bopp
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer)
June 20, 2002
/s/  Robert F. Mathews
Robert F. Mathews
Vice President—Finance and Treasurer (Principal Accounting Officer)
June 20, 2002
EXHIBITS
TO
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
ON FORM S-8
OF
ALARIS MEDICAL, INC.
EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit
4.1
Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Registrant, as amended (filed herewith)
4.2
By-Laws of Registrant, as amended (incorporated by reference to Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 8, 2001 for the quarter ended June 30, 2001)
5.1
Opinion of Piper Rudnick LLP (filed herewith)
23.1
Consent of Piper Rudnick LLP (included in opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1)
23.2
Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (filed herewith)
24.1
Power of Attorney (contained on the signature page)
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