Iranian Experts Make Bipolar Forceps for Precision Surgeries
“One of the products made by our company is three bipolar forceps which are used for brain and heart surgeries and other precision surgeries,” Heydar Jelviz, the secretary of the National Diabetes Association of Iran and chairman of the Board of Directors of the knowledge-based company, told ANA.
“The size of these forceps is 8 to 26 centimeters. Their tips are also made of gold and silver metallurgy; gold metallurgy allows a more appropriate amount of voltage to be applied to the body's tissue during surgery. Silver metallurgy also prevents scar in the tissue and allows surgery to be performed in an antibacterial environment,” he added.
"Also, the tips of the forceps are not sticky and tissue does not stick to their tips during surgery, which allows the surgeon to perform the surgery at a faster speed,” Jelviz said.
He underlined that the quality of the product is on par with similar Western and German counterparts.
In a relevant development in October, Iranian researchers at a knowledge-based company had also succeeded in producing surgical stainless steel and biocompatible suture wire applicable for sternal closure after open heart surgery.
“One of the products of our company is stainless steel suture wire. This product is used to close the sternum bone after open heart surgery,” Hojjat Mirzayee, the production manager of the knowledge-based company, told ANA.
Noting that one of the important features and advantages of this product is its biocompatibility, he said, “Plastic and absorbable sutures are usually used for surgical operations but metal and absorbable sutures with greater strength and power should be used for the operation of the sternum area, which has a resistant bone.”
“This product remains inside the patient's body like implant equipment for life, that's why they should be biocompatible and meet the necessary standards in terms of mechanical properties like penetration, connection force, bending and other parameters,” Mirzayee said.
“This product has now received all the standards of 10993 (standard of biological evaluation of medical devices). It has also obtained the necessary approvals from the heart center and several prominent Iranian heart hospitals,” he underlined.
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