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Pediatrics

Pediatric surgery is widely regarded as the most challenging for orthopedic surgeons because it requires an especially delicate touch. HemaClear® provides distinct advantages over conventional methods by providing an effective product that's tailor-made for this specialty.

HemaClear® can be applied on upper or lower limbs as small as 14 cm in circumference. Its unique, narrower design provides a larger, dryer, and clearer sterile surgical field with a more favorable pressure distribution at the occlusion site. The device can be placed closer to the site than ever before. Allowing greater access to the surgical site and enhancing the visibility anatomical structures, assures a safer, more successful surgical outcome.

From a 2006 UK study of three pediatric surgeries...

" In all cases a clear and bloodless field has enabled us to perform the surgery with the accuracy and confidence required to ensure a positive clinical outcome...we now feel that we have found a suitable alternative to the pressure cuff in pediatric and young adult cases and as such will no longer be commissioning the use of the pressure cuff tourniquet in these procedures. [HemaClear®] is a very simple device which has provided us with a more effective tourniquet solution with regards to all aspects including ease of use, flexibility, time, resource and, of course, infection control and quality of the bloodless field, which needs to be second to none. Our intention is to continue the use of the device and there may be future opportunities to expand the benefits of the device into other areas in the hospital such as day care. " *

* deKiewiet, GP: Moving to a new type of sterile and single use tourniquet for orthopaedic surgery. Orthopedic Product News: March/April 2006.