SuturTek's Fascia Suturing Device Wins Silver 2006 Industrial Design Excellence Award.NORTH CHELMSFORD, Mass. -- SuturTek Incorporated, a medical device company with a unique, patented safe-suturing solution, today announced that its 360-degree Fascia fascia (făsh`ēə), fibrous tissue network located between the skin and the underlying structure of muscle and bone. Fascia is composed of two layers, a superficial layer and a deep layer. Closure Device(TM) has received a Silver 2006 Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA), one of the world's most prestigious design competitions. Co-sponsored by BusinessWeek and the Industrial Designers Society of America Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) is an organisation of professional industrial designers in the United States. It was formed in 1965 by merger of three American designer associations: American Designers Institute (IDI), American Society of Industrial Design (IDSA IDSA Infectious Diseases Society of America IDSA Industrial Designers Society of America IDSA Interactive Digital Software Association IDSA Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses (India) IDSA International Dark Sky Association ), the IDEA is an international competition that was started in 1980 and recognizes design and innovation from around the world. The IDEA competition spans the hottest designs, innovative problem-solvers and coolest concepts for products. Breathtaking aesthetics, rugged engineering and enhanced usability characterized entries in categories as diverse as consumer electronics, housewares house·wares pl.n. Cooking utensils, dishes, and other small articles used in a household, especially in the kitchen. , transportation, sporting goods, furniture and medical and scientific equipment. Judging criteria for each entry focused on five areas of industrial design excellence: design innovation, benefit to the user, benefit to the client/business, ecological responsibility, and appropriate aesthetics and appeal. Silver winner of the medical and scientific equipment category, the SuturTek 360-degree Fascia Closure Device is designed to prevent needlestick injuries during fascia closures. Fascia is the dense tissue layer under the skin and fat that envelopes the abdominal cavity abdominal cavity Largest hollow space of the body, between the diaphragm and the top of the pelvic cavity and surrounded by the spine and the abdominal muscles and others. and large muscles. Fascia closure is traditionally performed by manual suturing, using large, unprotected sharp needles and is a critical surgical procedure that is performed at the conclusion of 5 million surgeries each year in the US alone. "Receiving a Silver IDEA acknowledges our commitment to innovative design, which is a driving force behind our products, and why surgeons find our devices so easy and effective to use," explained Gerald Brecher, 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. , SuturTek Incorporated. "This award is the second design excellence we received this year, and reinforces the expertise and execution of our product development team, along with our Industrial Design and Manufacturing partners, Bleck Design Group and Lacey Manufacturing, Inc. who continue to play a key role in our success." SuturTek and its design team developed the SuturTek 360-degree Fascia Closure Device based on the need to prevent needlestick injuries and protect surgeons, nurses, operating room operating room n. Abbr. OR A room equipped for performing surgical operations. staff and patients against potentially deadly blood borne pathogens. The device precisely replicates traditional hand suturing techniques and prevents accidental needlesticks by containing the sharp point of the needle in a protective cartridge when not in use. It also reduces trauma to the tissue by assuring the needle always follows its own arc. For surgeons, it speeds up the procedure and reduces the tedium of hand suturing - simply squeeze the handle to place a stitch. The SuturTek 360-degree Fascia Closure Device can also be used with equal ease in either hand. As a Silver 2006 IDEA award winner for its 360-degree Fascia Closure Device, SuturTek takes its place alongside some of the world's leading medical and surgical device companies, such as Ethicon Endo-Surgery (a Johnson & Johnson Company) and Siemens Medical Systems. For more information on the SuturTek 360-degree Fascia Closure Device and award, visit: http://www.idsa.org/IDEA2006/galleries/idea/idea2006/ award_details.asp?id=47&cat=9 (Due to the length of this URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. , it may be necessary to copy and paste To copy files from one location to another or to copy text and images from one document to another. All modern operating systems and applications have a copy and paste capability that is typically selected from an Edit menu. See cut and paste and Win Copy between windows. this hyperlink into your Internet browser's URL address field.) About IDEA, Industrial Designers and IDSA The IDEA program fosters business and public understanding about the impact of industrial design excellence on the quality of life and the economy. Industrial designers determine the form, use features and interaction qualities of manufactured products, packaging and digital media systems. They study people at work, at home and in motion to create satisfying experiences with products from the kitchen and the office to the hospital and the warehouse, shaping these to fit their customers and to make effective use of industrial processes. IDSA is the voice of industrial design, committed to advancing the profession through education, information, community and advocacy. For more information, visit www.idsa.org. About SuturTek Incorporated SuturTek Incorporated, with headquarters in North Chelmsford, Massachusetts North Chelmsford is a part of the U.S. town of Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Although North Chelmsford has its own zip code, library, post office, police station, fire station, and local calling area, it is run by the same local town government and is part of the same school district , is a privately-held, venture capital backed medical device company. SuturTek's patented platform technology is the basis for an entire portfolio of suturing devices that replicate traditional hand suturing techniques in open and minimally invasive surgery minimally invasive surgery Laparoscopic surgery, see there. See Laparoscopic cholecystectomy. . SuturTek devices enable surgeons to suture suture /su·ture/ (soo´cher) 1. sutura. 2. a stitch or series of stitches made to secure apposition of the edges of a surgical or traumatic wound. 3. to apply such stitches. 4. more safely, quickly, and easily than traditional hand suturing. For more information, visit www.suturtek.com or call 866.839.0186. (C) 2006 SuturTek Incorporated. 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