Tech Shout!

PEAK Surgical is proud to present its latest innovative creation named PEAK PlasmaBlade, which provides positive results from its Preclinical Study. The medical device claims to give a tender cut and renders the patient with little thermal tissue injury as compared to traditional electrosurgery.

The PlasmaBlade uses pulsed plasma energy to create surgical incisions and also efficiently controls bleeding. The low-temperature tissue dissection tool displayed a better and efficient way of surgical incision and it was noticed that even the wound healing process was quicker. The study of this device involved freshly excised human abdominal tissue which was cut using the PEAK PlasmaBlade and the conclusion showed a significant positive response.

The results of this study were presented in a poster session at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ (ACOG) 56th Annual Clinical Meeting which was held in New Orleans by lead investigator Dr. Paul Blumenthal, M.P.H., professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford University School of Medicine.

“The findings of this comparative preclinical study of tissue cutting and healing are encouraging because they demonstrated that cuts made with the PEAK PlasmaBlade produced minimal collateral damage compared with cuts made with currently available electrosurgical instruments,” Dr. Blumenthal said. “This is important because collateral tissue damage may impede wound healing, obscure histological analysis, and lead to scarring and infection in surgical patients. New surgical cutting tools that use less heat but offer precise soft-tissue cutting and coagulation with minimal thermal injury could change the way we operate.”

The tender and smart device hasn’t yet been introduced to the medical world as it awaits its approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. PEAK Surgical has filed a 510(k) pre-market notification with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market the new technology in the US.