The basic working principle of the surgical stapler: the working principle of various surgical staplers is the same as that of staplers, that is, two rows of interlaced staples are implanted into the tissue to staple the tissue with double rows of cross staples, which can tightly staple the tissue to prevent leakage; because small blood vessels can pass through the gap of B-shaped staples, they do not affect the blood supply of the suture site and its distal end.
1. The operation is simple and rapid, which greatly shortens the operation time;
2. The medical stapler is accurate and reliable, which can maintain good blood circulation, promote tissue healing, effectively prevent leakage, and significantly reduced the incidence of anastomotic leakage;
3. It is easy to sew and anastomose the operation field which is narrow and deep;
4. It changes the open suture or anastomosis by hand into closed suture and anastomosis, so as to reduce the risk of contaminating the operation field by using the disposable surgical stapler during the reconstruction of the digestive tract and the closure of bronchial stump;
5. It can be sutured repeatedly to avoid blood supply and tissue necrosis;
6. It makes endoscopic surgery (thoracoscopy, laparoscopy, etc. ) possible. Without the application of various endoscopic linear staplers, video-assisted thoracoscopy and laparoscopic surgery is impossible.
AI real-time tissue recognition: By 2030, 80% of smart staplers will be equipped with multispectral imaging + AI algorithms to automatically identify tissue thickness/blood supply and adjust the stapler pressure, reducing the incidence of anastomotic leakage by 60% (refer to the 2023 intestinal AI anastomosis study in Nature BME).
Intraoperative decision support: Giants such as Johnson & Johnson Ethicon are developing smart staplers with built-in surgical video analysis. By comparing a database of 3 million surgeries, they can indicate risks such as "the staple line is less than 1 cm from the edge of the tumor" before firing (data from the 2024 FDA digital medical pre-examination document).
Consumables supply chain forecast: Chinese manufacturers such as Midea Medical have tested the frequency/force data of stapler use to reversely predict the composition of hospital DRG diseases, with an error rate of <8% (2023 Shenzhen Third Hospital Supply Chain Digital Pilot Report).
Fault pre-detection IoT: The next generation of smart staplers will be equipped with vibration sensors, which will warn of motor attenuation one month in advance based on the 5,000-shot life curve (similar to Siemens MRI pre-maintenance technology migration).
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