Developing Next-Generation Surgical Devices

PADT Medical has a growing expertise in the development of "non-invasive" and Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgury (NOTES) medical devices. PADT Medical was contracted to by SafeStitch Medical Devices to develop and deliver a transoral sugical device for the treatment of obesity (shown below).




This device is patented by SafeStitch Medical Devices. SafeStich offers the following description on there website about this device:

The Obesity Device is introduced through the mouth and esophagus and works by suctioning two sides of the stomach lining into position for suturing, impaling the mucosa or stomach lining, placing a row of sutures through the two sides of the stomach, as commonly done during gastric surgery, injecting adrenaline into the mucosa to elevate it for excision, excising the top layer of the entrapped stomach wall, releasing this tissue, removing the device and tightening the sutures. [link]

Here is a news article that provides additional discussion and links on the future of surgery using NOTES techniques and medical devices.

Posted By: Scott Klopfenstein