ARTICLE SUMMARY:
Over the past two decades, while significant technological advances have come to much of the operating room, one notable lack has been new energy sources to improve surgical cutting and ablation. Creo Medical believes it has come up with such a new source by combining bipolar RF and microwave in a multimodal form.
Twenty years ago,Chris Hancock was a UK-based researcher for Gyrus, at the time, a leading manufacturer of a wide range of surgical scopes, including resectoscopes, hysteroscopes, laryngoscopes, and scopes used in laparoscopic surgery. Hancock, who has a PhD in engineering, was studying advanced forms of energy, mostly in microwave technology and bipolar radiofrequency (RF), and had begun to explore the possibility of creating multimodal forms of energy that, ultimately in Creo Medical’s case, could apply the new energy sources to create new surgical tools, initially at least in the GI space.
