FEATURED PRODUCTS
1. Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS)
Key Concept: Performing an operation through very small cuts, or even natural openings, instead of making a large incision. This method is often called "keyhole surgery."
Simple Explanation: Minimally Invasive Surgery allows doctors to fix problems inside your body with only tiny openings. This means the patient usually feels less pain, has less scarring, and can recover and leave the hospital much faster.
Example Product & Concept: A Laparoscopy System is the main tool. It uses a long, thin tube with a tiny camera (an endoscope) and specialized tools that go through a small opening. For example, if you need your appendix removed, the surgeon can use a laparoscopy system to do the entire operation through three small cuts, each less than an inch long.
2. Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL)
Key Concept: Using powerful sound waves or energy pulses from outside the body to break up internal stones (like kidney stones).
Simple Explanation: This is a non-surgical way to treat painful stones inside your kidney or urinary tract. A machine uses focused energy to break the hard stone into tiny pieces that are small enough for your body to pass naturally when you go to the bathroom.
Example Product & Concept: A machine like the SPARK EM Electromagnetic System uses shockwaves. You lie down on a table, and the machine sends waves through your skin, focusing the energy only on the stone, shattering it without needing to cut your skin.
3. Advanced Imaging and Diagnostics
Key Concept: High-tech machines that create extremely clear, detailed pictures of what's happening inside your body in real-time.
Simple Explanation: Doctors rely on these tools to find problems early, check how a patient is recovering, or guide them during complex procedures. The clearer the image, the more accurate the diagnosis.
Example Product & Concept:
Ultrasound Systems (like the ARIETTA 750) use safe sound waves to create live video images of organs or blood flow. It's often used to monitor a pregnancy, but in surgery, it can help the surgeon see a tumor that might not be visible on the surface.
Mammography and X-Ray C-Arms are also part of imaging. A C-Arm is a special mobile X-ray machine used during surgery to take pictures as the operation happens, allowing the surgeon to see exactly where a screw or device is placed inside the body.
4. Advanced Airway Management
Key Concept: Ensuring a patient's breathing is secure, especially when they need a breathing tube before surgery or when they are in an emergency.
Simple Explanation: When a patient needs help breathing, often a doctor has to place a tube into the windpipe. "Advanced Airway Management" uses modern tools that make this difficult process much safer and easier by giving the doctor a clear view.
Example Product & Concept: A Video Laryngoscope (like the i-Scopes line) is a tool with a small, high-definition camera on the tip. Instead of looking directly into the patient's mouth, the doctor watches a video screen, which shows a brilliant, magnified view of the vocal cords, ensuring the breathing tube goes into the correct place on the first try.
The SPARK EM Electromagnetic system is a medical device used to break up kidney and ureteral stones non-surgically. The technique is called Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL).
Spark EM ESWL
Electromagnetic Lithotripsy System
The biggest advantage of endo-surgery is that it is minimally invasive.
Smaller Incisions: Instead of a large cut, you get a few small ones, which means less trauma to the body.
Less Pain: Smaller cuts typically mean less pain after the operation.
Faster Recovery: Patients can often go home sooner and return to normal activities more quickly than with open surgery.
Example: A gallbladder removal (cholecystectomy), which once required a large incision and a long hospital stay can now often be done laparoscopically with just a few small keyhole cuts, allowing the patient to go home much sooner.
Insufflator: For surgeries in areas like the abdomen (laparoscopy), a gas (usually carbon dioxide) is pumped into the body cavity by an insufflator. This creates a working space and makes it easier for the surgeon to see the organs.
Robotic Surgery Systems: Highly advanced equipment, like the da Vinci Surgical System, uses robotic arms to hold the endoscope and surgical instruments. The surgeon sits at a console and controls the arms, which often provide highly precise, scaled-down movements and a 3D view, making complex procedures easier to perform through small incisions.