Single-use, sterile, pre-packaged surgical (SSP) instruments and implants are driving a technological evolution in surgery that will be every bit as significant as the ongoing shift toward minimally ...

What's the ugliest part of your car's body? Ask our friends at Carolina Custom in Clinton, North Carolina, and they will say it is your car's license plate—and they have a cure for it. It's called a ...

Traverse City-based Thompson Surgical Inc., one of the largest makers of surgical retractors in the world — devices that hold back skin, muscle and organs to allow surgeons better and cleaner access ...

Use of Applied Medical’s Alexis ® O C-Section Protector/Retractor Has Shown Statistically Significant Reduction in Mothers’ Surgical Site Infections, Bleeding and Postoperative Pain RANCHO SANTA ...

A study in Germany found a plastic sheath wound retractor reduced the rate of surgical site infections in cesarean sections compared to a metal, self-retaining retractor traditionally used in those ...

Dan Reuvers, president of Omni-Tract Surgical, a St. Paul–based manufacturer, explains that there are two kinds of surgical retractors: the wishbone retractor (with a wishbone shape) and the ring ...