Operating Room procedures can be moved into a clinic or procedure room setting

Many procedures that traditionally have been performed on in the operating room under general anesthesia can now be performed either in a hospital procedure room or in a clinic setting.  In the procedure room and clinic settings the patient is awake though sometimes a sedated patient whose throat is numbed.  Rather than placing a rigid laryngoscope or bronchoscope for exposure, the physician can now utilize a trans-nasal flexible endoscope.  The flexible endoscope visualizes the diseased tissue, and then through the working channel of the flexible endoscope the OmniGuide BeamPath CO2 laser fiber can be passed.  The OmniGuide BeamPath fiber can be utilized for procedures such as ablating papilloma lesions, cutting benign lesions and performing a biopsy.  For the patient, the benefit is avoiding the risks associated with general anesthesia.  For the hospital, the use of a procedure room rather than a full service operating room decreases resource utilization and associated costs.

• Move patients from the operating room (OR) to procedure rooms or a clinic
• Avoid general anesthesia
• Utilize fewer hospital resources

Extending the reach of CO2 laser energy

Traditionally, the benefits of CO2 laser energy, cutting and coagulation with minimal thermal damage, could only be applied to tissues that were visible from outside the body through a laryngoscope or bronchoscope.  Now with the ability to deliver CO2 laser energy through the OmniGuide BeamPath flexible fiber, delicate tissues in the trachea, sinus cavities and skull base are accessible.  In delicate spaces, such as near the optic nerve, precise delivery of CO2 laser energy for microsurgical cutting and coagulation is now possible.

• CO2 laser energy access to tracheal lesions
• Allows side-cuts and back cuts for en-bloc resections
• Microsurgical cutting and coagulation around delicate tissues