Our industry leading medical devices are minimising costly recovery times.
For health services worldwide, lengthy post-operative care and subsequent medical treatment puts an additional strain on already overstretched finances. The UK, which has the largest public-funded healthcare system in the world, faces a £20 billion shortfall by 2014.
Meanwhile in the US, which has no healthcare provision, a recent senate finance committee report stated that 46 million Americans lack health coverage, and another 25 million are underinsured due to the rising cost of healthcare plans.
With chronic disease becoming more prominent, accounting for 72% of total diseases in the world, the need for surgical intervention has also increased.
How can health services worldwide address the financial trauma of lengthy post-operative recovery from surgery?
Minimally invasive surgery has been shown to reduce post-operative pain and to speed-up convalescence and recovery, reducing the length of time a patient spends in hospital.
For example, gallbladder disease is a fairly common condition. Less than 12 years ago removing a gall bladder involved making a large incision through the skin and the underlying abdominal tissues. It was a major operation for the patient, with damage to healthy tissue, risk of infection and up to two weeks post-operative recovery in hospital.
Today a gallbladder operation involves a couple of minor incisions in the abdominal wall using long, thin instruments and a video monitor to remove the diseased organ. Patients normally leave hospital the same day.
Minimally invasive surgery is highly dependent upon technology and precision instrumentation. Meeting the needs of forward thinking surgeons and clinicians through high quality, cost effective instrumentation empowers surgeons worldwide to reduce the need for lengthy post-operative care. This is instrumental in alleviating the painful cost to already financially challenged health services worldwide.
Based in the Yorkshire and Humber region of the UK, leading surgical equipment specialists Surgical Innovations design and manufacture innovative devices for use in minimally invasive surgery.
Original inventors of the Endoflex range of laparospcopic instruments, the company recently attracted worldwide interest during the unveiling of their latest product Logi™Flex. This cost effective solution helps with gastric banding procedures, increasing in demand as 300 million people are currently diagnosed as clinically obese.
In fact, over 10,000 industry specialists and over 400 healthcare technology businesses are located in this region, including world-leaders Swann-Morton, one of the largest producers of surgical blades in the world and Granton Ragg, producers of the world renowned Ragg medical tuning fork.
Yorkshire and Humber offers businesses access to clinical trials, research collaboration and new product development. Expertise in advanced engineering and composites has also helped secure the region as a leading centre of excellence in the manufacture of surgical instruments and medical equipment.
The region has one of the highest concentrations of companies covering the full supply chain, from casting, forging and machining to packaging and sterilisation. One such company excelling in this sector is Lidster, who manufacture surgical drills and have a global reach based on a reputation for quality.
The region has an enviable heritage in healthcare technologies and is at the forefront of driving future surgical techniques that will ensure procedures are reliable, have minimal impact on the patient while reducing the financial burden on health services across the world.
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