Background Postoperative staple line leaks and bleeding are
the most common reasons for complications in surgical
procedures that involve organ resection, such as sleeve
gastrectomy. Increasing the safety of these operations
requires improving the instruments (endostaplers or endocutters) used for stapling and sectioning the tissues.
Methods We present a new prototype stapler for marketing
in resection surgery, especially designed for the sleeve
gastrectomy.
Results We suggest that the medical instrument industry
creates devices in which the channel along which the knife
blade runs is located asymmetrically. This would allow
more staples to be placed on the side of the gastric remnant,
thus improving the sealing and hemostasis of the suture line
and reducing the number of complications for patients as a
result.
Conclusions The application of new concepts in medical
surgical devices can improve the safety of the procedures
in our patients.
