J&J’s Ethicon touts surgical staplers study

Ethicon’s Echelon Flex GST system [Image courtesy of Ethicon]

Johnson & Johnson’ Ethicon business is promoting the results of a head-to-head study between an Ethicon surgical stapler and a Medtronic stapler system.

Ethicon’s Echelon Flex GST system had a 20% staple-line air leak rate when tested out on pig lungs under modeled physiologic breathing conditions, versus a 44% rate for Medtronic’s Endo Gia with Tri-Staple technology.

Ethicon funded the research, which is being announced this week at the 2019 Society of Thoracic Surgeons annual meeting in San Diego.

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