Medtronic releases new bariatric surgery device

Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) said it launched the GastriSail, a new device designed to improve consistency and efficiency during sleeve gastrectomy procedures, in the U.S. Sleeve gastrectomies are the most popular weight loss procedures in the U.S. right now, GastriSail co-developer Dr. Amit Trivedi of the Hackensack University Medical Center in N.J. told MassDevice.com. Trivedi said he was inspired to create the device due to variability and ‘spiraling’ of gastric sleeves with current devices and methods. “What I noticed when I was training residents, fellows and other surgeons was there was a tendency to spiral the stomach. Sometimes it came out twisted, you never really got a consistent sleeve when surgeons were cutting it, despite having a boogie – a rubber tube that serves as a guide.  It just wasn’t working as well as I’d like,” Trivedi said. The GastriSail reduces the number of tubes necessary for the procedure to just one, Trivedi said. The device suctions and evacuates the stomach and can automatically stretch it out to align the anterior and posterior walls and “remove any wrinkles” before dissection, Trivedi added. The bariatric device also has LED lights to illuminate a set dissection line, Trivadi said, to aid in consistency of sleeve creation. “The LED lights serve as basically a dotted line. Any surgeon with a reasonable skill set should be able to follow the dotted lines and cut right along them, and they’ll know how cl...
Source: Mass Device - Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Tags: Surgical Weight loss medtronic Source Type: news