FDA Approves For Permanent Treatment Of Advanced Heart Failure Assist Device Pioneered By Texas Heart Institute At St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital. See Link Although designed as a bridge-to-transplant device, the HeartMate II has proven itself sufficiently in trials to warrant its approval as a permanent device. Designed by the Texas Heart Institute, the continuous flow left [...]
The development of less invasive surgical procedures continues to move toward procedures that may be "incisionless" or only require small perforations to accommodate surgical tools. Principal among approaches that are under evaluation are NOTES procedures — Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery — in which access is provided endoscopically via the mouth or vagina. NOTES has [...]
The vast majority of sutures, staples and endostaples are used following procedures involving acute surgical wounds. Typically, chronic wounds do not involve use of suture and staple products unless some degree of surgical intervention is employed to remove necrotic tissue or to create a new acute wound bed to aid healing. Sutures comprise two component [...]
Products used in surgical closure and securement include multiple types, from sutures, staples and tapes to fibrin sealants, fibrin glues, high-strength glues (e.g., cyanoacrylates, others), hemostasis and others. Clinicians managing surgical or traumatic wounds choose the appropriate product or product combination based on wound type, location, patient status and other considerations. From the manufacturer’s standpoint, [...]
In cardiovascular and spine surgery, multi-billion dollar markets were created from entirely new procedures between 1980 and 2000, with subsequent segmentation in later years particularly as new minimally invasive procedures were developed towards the end of the 20th century. In the cardiovascular arena, the development of new procedures for angioplasty and bypasses in the late [...]
From PRNewswire and Bio-Medicine.org… link. Results presented at this week’s Digestive Disease Week meeting in Chicago illustrated the effectiveness of BÂRRX Medical, Inc.’s HALO ablation system in the treatment of the pre-cancerous condition known as Barrett’s esophagus. The HALO ablation system uses radiofrequency (RF) energy to remove the epithelium in the esophagus of patients with [...]
From MedMarket Diligence Report #S175, "Worldwide Surgical Sealants, Glues, Wound Closure and Anti-Adhesion Markets, 2009-2013." In cardiovascular and spine surgery, multi-billion dollar markets were created from entirely new procedures between 1980 and 2000, with subsequent segmentation in later years particularly as new minimally invasive procedures were developed towards the end of the 20th century. For [...]
For completing our most recent worldwide analysis of the market for sealants, glues, and related products, we assessed their current and potential uses globally. We found the strongest uptake of fibrin sealants in Asia; also in Europe, particularly in Italy where GEM has established a 12-item application list for its high-strength glue product. Approximately 12 [...]
In a prior post, I sought to explore the shifting nature of the medical industry, from clearly defined categories of devices, drugs and diagnostics to a spectrum of products that defy categorization into any one category and instead frequently qualify as multiple. …Competition in the medical product industry has long since changed from being defined [...]
More medtech trends Nanotechnology advances. The use of nanotechnology in medicine has faced as many overblown promises as any other application of nanotechnology. However, any realistic view of future medical technologies with big impact would be amiss if it did not consider the myriad applications of "nanotechnology", which we place in quotes to denote that [...]
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