Subcutaneously closing incisions with the speed of a stapler, without staples
NEWS
SAGES 2022 in Denver - March 16-19
It was great to participate in a live meeting after a long break following COVID. Thank you for all the attendees who showed great enthusiasm for the new single user skin stapler which will be available later this year!
May 2, 2019 Vermont Chapter ACS in Quechee, VT
Dr. Kenneth Danielson will present a talk on SubQ It! at the Spring Meeting of the Vermont Chapter of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) at Simon Pearce Restaurant in Quechee, Vermont. For more information or to register, please click here.
May 3-6, 2019 ACOG in Nashville, TN
SubQ It! will be exhibiting May 3-6, 2019 at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) in Nashville, TN. We would love to see you! We will be at Booth #2121. Click here for more information about ACOG.
April 3-6, 2019 SAGES Annual Meeting
in Baltimore, MD
SubQ It! exhibited April 3-6, 2019 at the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD.
Photo on right shows Chuck Rogers (CEO)
with Rob Hatch (Vice President, US Sales)
April 10, 2019 NEOGS
in Sturbridge, MA
SubQ It! also exhibited at the New England Obstetrical and Gynecological Society (NEOGS) Meeting on April 10, 2019 in Sturbridge, Massachusetts.
ACS Clinical Congress - SubQ It! booth prominently located #945
SubQ It! exhibited Oct 22-24 at the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Clinical Congress, right here in our hometown of Boston, MA. Click here for more information.
Success in South Korea
Dr. Kenneth Danielson (founder Opus KSD) presented “SubQ It! History and Use” at the GS Symposium in Jeju, South Korea on March 24, 2018. His talk describing the unique surgical technique that has been implemented in the SubQ It! Bioabsorbable Skin Closure System is available here.
ACS Clinical Congress
SubQ It! exhibited at the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Clinical Congress Oct 23-25 in San Diego, California.
Click here for more information.
AORN Global Surgical Conference & Expo
SubQ It! was introduced to the AORN at their Global Surgical Conference & Expo in Boston April 2-5, 2017. Over 10,000 perioperative nurses attended the conference and many visited us at booth 1063 to try SubQ It!
Success in Dubai
SubQ It! exhibited at The Arab Health Exhibition & Congress in Dubai, Jan 30 – Feb 3. This is the largest healthcare exhibition & medical congress in the Middle East, and the 2nd largest in the world. The SubQ It! had strong interest from international distributors as well as surgeons attending the convention.
SubQ It! will be exhibited at the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress, October 17-19 in Washington, DC. We will be in Booth #506. The ACS Clinical Congress remains the premier annual surgical meeting for surgeons, surgery residents, medical students, and members of surgical teams, which is a key market for the SubQ It!
March 16-19, 2016 – SubQ It! was exhibited at SAGES 2016 Annual Meeting. In addition to demonstrating SubQ It! to many surgeons, Dr. Danielson presented results from recent surgeries in the Emerging Technology Session (see Studies).
SubQ It! will be exhibited at SAGES 2016 Annual Meeting, March 16-19, in Boston, MA -- exhibit space 1021. This is the largest meeting for gastrointestinal and endoscopic surgeons, one of the key target markets for SubQ It!
Opus KSD, Inc. has been awarded a Phase 2 SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) grant from NIH to further development of the SubQ It! bioabsorbable stapler system.
Grant Number: 2 R44 TR000178-02A1
Principal Investigator: Rogers, Charles H.
Project Title: Single-Use Delivery Device for Bioabsorbable Fasteners
Institution: OPUS KSD
Award Issue Date: 02/23/2015
The European Patent Office issued EP 2,762,089, a second patent to Opus KSD, Inc. covering “Delivering Bioabsorbable Fasteners.”
January 2015 – Proto Labs, Inc. chooses SubQ It! to be featured in the Proto Labs 2015 Cool Parts Calendar and for a Case Study on the development of SubQ It!. To read more about “Saving Your Skin” – a Proto Labs Case Study, click here.
October 27-29, 2014 – American College of Surgeons – SubQ It! will be exhibited at the ACS Clinical Congress 2014, Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA – See us at Booth 1238. For more information, click here.
April 11, 2014 - Opus received K131563 clearance letter from FDA stating that the SubQ It! Bioabsorbable Skin Closure System is cleared to be legally marketed for closing incisions in abdominal, thoracic, gynecologic, orthopedic, plastic and reconstructive surgery. For more information, click here.
February 18, 2014 - Canada’s Intellectual Property Office issued Patent 2,655,197 “Tissue Fasteners and Related Insertion Devices, Mechanisms, and Methods” to Opus KSD, Inc. This complements patents already issued in the U.S. (No.: 8,506 591, August 13, 2013), Australia, Japan, China, and pending in Europe, India, and Hong Kong.
For more information, click here.
January 21, 2014 - US Patent and Trademark Office official granted registration of the SubQ It! trademark as Registration Number 4,471,889 to Opus KSD, Inc. for the SubQ It! Bioabsorbable Skin Closure System:
November 1, 2013 – MassMEDIC’s 14th annual MedTech Investors Conference in Boston. Chuck Rogers, C.E.O. will present the SubQ It! opportunity in the morning sessions of Emerging Companies. For more information, click here.
November 6, 2013 – SubQ It! has been selected as one of sixteen cutting edge life science and medical device companies to present at the Landmark Venture Forum - Investing for Cures 2013 at the Union League Club in Manhattan. www.landmarkangels.com
American College of Surgeons - Strong interest was expressed by surgeons visiting the SubQ It! booth at the ACS meeting held in Washington DC, October 6-10, 2013. http://www.dcfacs.org/aws/ACS/pt/sp/DC_home_page
September 24, 2013 - AdvaMed 2013 – SubQ It! (Opus KSD, Inc.) will be presented in Company Presentations at 2:55 in Room 204C, at this leading MedTech conference, Washington Convention Center, Washington D.C. Sept 23-25.
U.S. Patent No 8,506,591 - Broad U.S. Patent coverage was granted August 13, 2013 for “Tissue Fasteners and Related Insertion Devices Mechanisms, and Methods”. This U.S. patent furthers protection already granted in Australia, China, and Japan. Click Here
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In the 1990s the invention of the metal surgical staple revolutionized wound closure. Surgeons readily adopted the use of staplers because of the time savings (4 minutes for staplers versus 9 minutes for manual sutures for the average procedure). Recent studies have shown, however, that surgical staples have a higher overall health care system cost due to the cost of returning to remove the staples. Now compare to the SubQ It! fastener, only 0.0064 grams, as fast to install as a metal staple, and it’s biodegradable – no need to come back to have them removed.
First Showing: SubQ It! shown at the annual meeting of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) in Baltimore, April 17-20, 2013.
Thanks to all who visited our booth 636 for a demo and to those who have asked to be contacted when we have FDA clearance or distribution in your country.
