Mobile health startup Gauss Surgical raises $1.5M

Mobile health startup Gauss Surgical has raised $1.5 million through the sale of equity as part of a total offering that could reach more than $2 million, according to a filing with the SEC. The Silicon Valley company recently received FDA approval for its Triton Fluid Management System. The Triton app uses an iPad camera […]

By Dan Verel on October 31, 2014 5:04 pm

Mobile health startup Gauss Surgical has raised $1.5 million through the sale of equity as part of a total offering that could reach more than $2 million, according to a filing with the SEC.

The Silicon Valley company recently received FDA approval for its Triton Fluid Management System. The Triton app uses an iPad camera that scans surgical gauze as a way of seeing in real time what a patient’s blood loss is during surgery. The images are then sent to the cloud and into an algorithm that can help inform surgeons when or if a blood transfusion is necessary.

The traditional method for gauging blood loss in surgery has been to weigh surgical sponges and the surgeon’s best estimation.