Product Overview

Surgeons have been using manual surgical instruments to perform tissue resection and removal for centuries and many of the instrument designs used today have remained unchanged for decades. While proven in some specific applications, manual instruments are slow and require the surgeon to perform repetitive, strenuous motions for long periods of time around vital structures such as major vessels and nerves. Technologies such as laser and radio frequency are effective but cause burning and charring of surrounding tissue and have been associated with damage to structures and sources of infection.

HydroCision has responded to the needs of the market by providing a significant technological advancement in surgical instruments. HydroCision's proprietary fluidjet technology is the basis of a new surgical modality, Hydrosurgery. Hydrosurgery uses a controlled hair-thin supersonic stream of water in a precise manner to provide an effective cutting, ablation, and collection system for medical applications. Hydrosurgery has the power density of laser and radio frequency technologies without causing collateral damage to tissue. HydroSurgery also has the unique benefit of simultaneously cutting, ablating, and removing the targeted tissue and debris.

HydroCision's platform technology for Hydrosurgery addresses the needs in the market and offers several improvements to current techniques including:

• Multiple functionality
• Tissue Selectivity
• Elimination of collateral damage

Spinal Surgery / Fusion Preparation

• Fast - rapid nucleus removal and endplate preparation
• Safe - reduced instrument passes by vital structures
• Effective - thorough preparation of the disc space

Surgical Debridement - licensed and distributed by Smith & Nephew, Inc.

Arthroscopy - licensed and distributed by Mitek, A Johnson & Johnson Company.