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Cardiovascular and vascular disease is one of the fastest growing medical fields in the world. To treat the ever growing number of patients, new minimally invasive techniques for detecting and combating the disease are continually being developed. The procedures used to detect and combat cardiovascular and vascular disease include diagnostic procedures to locate and characterize lesions that form in the arteries and therapeutic interventions which clear blockages in the arteries.
These procedures require that the physician make a small incision in the groin or directly in the artery. Through these punctures, the physician is able to introduce into the artery the catheters and other necessary devices needed for the diagnosis or treatment.
Traditionally, at the conclusion of a procedure, the physician sutures the artery directly or hospital staff applies manual pressure, know as compression, in order to allow the body's own healing mechanism to close the puncture. Depending on specific patient dynamics, patients can be required to remain in the hospital for up to 48 hours in order to ensure that the natural clotting is successful.
As the number of procedures has grown, however, physicians have demanded a more efficient method of arterial suturing or closure. In response to this need, devices that are designed to increase the speed and effectiveness of vascular hemostasis or closure have emerged.
One of the newer devices is the SuperStitch from Sutura, a product with a unique and patented method to apply a suture at the puncture site, in a simple and efficient three step procedure.
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