Medical device firm US Endoscopy has released a new device for the retrieval of foreign objects from patients’ gastrointestinal tracts.
The Mentor, Ohio-based company says its new Raptor grasping device combines the functionality of two devices into one, offering “strength and precision” in retrieving foreign bodies, according to a statement from US Endoscopy.
The Raptor device is intended to help surgeons retrieve objects like razor blades and safety pins, which aren’t the most comfortable things to have sitting in one’s digestive system.
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The single-use device is not designed to be reprocessed because user feedback has indicated that the functionality of the teeth in grasping devices deteriorates over time from reprocessing, according to US Endoscopy.
Last year, the company formed a urology division to create devices to address urologists’s problems in stone management, foreign body retrieval and tissue acquisition.