Conmed Corp.
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Launches Trogard electronic trocar system and a modular instrument system for laparoscopic surgery. The firm says its Trogard system "increases safety and surgeon control by using familiar electrosurgical techniques" to create punctures for instruments rather than mechanical force. The modular instruments allow the surgeon to choose "the type of working tip, the manner of controlling electrosurgery and mode of suction/irrigation control" to be used. The firm says that it does not expect significant revenue from the products during the first quarter of 1993 "because of the necessary length of customer evaluations".