University at Buffalo has spun out Surgino to tackle the risk of hernias following surgical stitching, with a tool intended to improve measurements of tension in the stitched tissues.
University at Buffalo yesterday provided public details of a new US-based spinout, Surgino, aiming to deliver a medical device to measure the tissue stress created by surgical stitches.
Surgino is working on a hooked surgical tool called Tensure that would help calculate the tension between tissues as they are tugged back together with a seam to close up surgical incisions.
Excessive tension can cause hernias during patient recovery, however measurements are often taken manually at present, with surgeons often relying on their prior experience.
Tensure’s small hooks fasten to the patient’s connective tissues at the surgical site to provide more reliable measurements, so that the surgeon can decide whether the seam should be reinforced.
Tensure is the design of Surgino co-founders Thomas Langan, Tatiana Bokyo and Stephen Chiang, all general surgery residents at University at Buffalo, as well as Jinwei Hu, a clinical informatics fellow with the same institution.
The founding team availed of multiple University at Buffalo resources to prove up their concept, including the Surgery Plus Program, which provided opportunities for additional learning and research during their residencies.
The university also unveiled a student-led startup called Case in Point in the same announcement that will aim to commercialise an all-in-one guitar case, stand and maintenance table.
