TISSUELINK MEDICAL RECEIVES FDA CLEARANCE FOR THE HEMOSTATIC SEALING AND COAGULATION OF BONE

DOVER, N.H., March 18 ¡X TissueLink Medical Inc., a privately held medical device company, announced that they recently received FDA clearance for TissueLink„· technology which expands the pre-existing soft tissue indication to include the hemostatic sealing and coagulation of bone.

Dr. Victor Goldberg of The University Hospitals of Cleveland was one of the first orthopaedic surgeons to utilize TissueLink technology. Dr. Goldberg stated: ¡§Blood loss in orthopaedics occurs from both the soft and hard tissue. Bone bleeding in particular has been a problem as no technology has adequately controlled it. In the past we have focused on managing blood loss through strategies such as patient pre-operative donation and cell salvage. Now, TissueLink technology enables us to prevent blood loss. By preventing blood loss we may be able to reduce patient pre-donation requirements, decrease patient exposure to allogenic blood, and reduce post-operative pain, swelling, and hematoma formation. We are in the early stages of a formal clinical study focused on the use of TissueLink technology in arthroplasty"

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