Titan Medical Inc (TMDIF)

[Bristol19]

The thinnest Cardica stapler is 5mm, as I understand it from their website.

The SPORT barrel is 25mm dia, or at least that's the incision size claimed. Each articulating arm looks to be larger than 5mm dia, maybe as much as 10mm?

I wouldn't know personally, but I suspect laparoscopic procedure staples need to be a bit on the larger size as compared to those for cardiac vessel use, so I think stapling through SPORT could have constraints due to the limitations created by entering via a snakearm channel.

Anyone want to expand on this?

Also noticed the black sleeves on the one SPORT video look like simple electrical shrink wrap. Obviously, that was not meant to showcase a done-design.

I wonder how Titan came up with the 25mm "limitation" on their barrel size. May be that a bit larger will eventually be more useful for introducing larger instruments through larger snakearm channels.