Surgeons don’t usually spend too much time worrying about the closure of trocar site incisions, but if the name of your game is speed, or if you find that patients wake up just a bit too quickly during suturing, then NeatStitch is your tool.
The device is inserted in the trocar, and then two blunt needles are deployed at the tip. The needles are pulled toward the body wall and then, with the press of a button, are rapidly driven through the fascia. The sutures can then be cut from the device and tied.
Dvir Keren, the founder of NeatStitch, showed us the device in action:
He also gave us a DVD with footage of the device from the inside:
2 responses so far ↓
1 Sanjib Mohanty // Jun 28, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Looks very nice and practical.
Cost- is a bit steep to run past my OR nurse manager !
2 Edmundo Inga-Zapata, MD // Aug 28, 2008 at 4:06 pm
75 USD for a cartridge?… what were they thinking about when designing this device?
Hey Bro!, there are other many places in the world where there are patients without opportunities to pay 75 USD for closing a 10mm hole!.
As the 95% of laparoscopic and surgical devices “created” in USA, THOSE are only created for american pockets.
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