FastStitch - New Disposable Suturing Device

After a surgeon stitches up a patient's abdomen, costly complications - some life-threatening - can occur. To cut down on these postoperative problems, Johns Hopkins University undergraduates have invented a disposable suturing tool to guide the placement of stitches and guard the accidental puncture of internal organs.

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00:00:01 so this is our device it's a plier like device in which it transfers the needle between the top and bottom arms the way it works is you place the fascia layer in between the arms of the device you close it what this does is it passes the needle from top to bottom you flick the switch Let It Go and that passes suture through now this this solves two main things one the needle selfcontained

00:00:22 between the two arms of this device so there's no chance of accidental bowel injury also this visual guide that you see here allows to place suture placements at 1 cm intervals from the incision site and from adjacent sutures and what this does is it allows you to maintain the Integrity of this fasion layer so you can minimize post-operative patient complications