Cayenne Medical Becomes First Medical Device Industry Supporter of VuMedi Site.SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Cayenne Medical, Inc., a privately held sports medicine sports medicine, branch of medicine concerned with physical fitness and with the treatment and prevention of injuries and other disorders related to sports. Knee, leg, back, and shoulder injuries; stiffness and pain in joints; tendinitis; "tennis elbow"; and company based in Scottsdale, announced today that it has become the first medical device industry partner of VuMedi, a "YouTube-style" site dedicated to furthering the education of orthopedic surgeons. Video footage of Cayenne Medical's lead technology, the AperFix System is currently featured on the site for surgeons to view. The AperFix System enables surgeons to perform a revolutionary surgical procedure resulting in complete reconstruction of the torn ACL See access control list. 1. ACL - Access Control List. 2. ACL - Association for Computational Linguistics. 3. ACL - A Coroutine Language. A Pascal-based implementation of coroutines. ["Coroutines", C.D. . The AperFix System, which offers a strong fixation option in an intuitive to use design, addresses limitations of other existing products and facilitates anatomic ACL reconstruction utilizing the Single Tunnel, Double Bundle[TM] technique. VuMedi is a surgeon-only video sharing See video sharing site. website where clinicians can view, upload, and discuss surgical videos they have posted. It is used for educational purposes and features on-demand streaming videos A one-way video transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play video clips and video broadcasts. Computers in home networks stream video to digital media hubs connected to a home theater. of actual surgical procedures Surgical procedures have long and possibly daunting names. The meaning of many surgical procedure names can often be understood if the name is broken into parts. For example in splenectomy, "ectomy" is a suffix meaning the removal of a part of the body. "Splene-" means spleen. . "We're very proud to be associated with VuMedi and to become the site's first industry partner," said James W. Hart, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Cayenne Medical. "Our support of the VuMedi site and concept is an example of our commitment to the orthopedic market we serve and to surgeon education, especially regarding groundbreaking new treatment technologies." The VuMedi homepage is located at www.vumedi.com. Cayenne's videos on VuMedi are available to surgeons at http://www.vumedi.com/profile/CayenneMedical. About Cayenne Medical, Inc.: Based in Scottsdale, Arizona Scottsdale (O'odham Vaṣai S-vaṣonĭ) is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, adjacent to Phoenix. Scottsdale has become internationally recognized as a premier and posh tourist destination, while maintaining its own identity and culture as " , Cayenne Medical is a privately held medical device company defining new technology for the soft tissue reconstruction segment of the sports medicine market. The company was founded in 2005 and is focused on leading the transformation of traditional ACL repair procedures by applying advanced technology through minimally invasive techniques. For more information, go to www.cayennemedical.com |
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