Procedural Area: Continence Restoration
Restore continence without long-term compromise.
Women suffering from stress urinary incontinence schedule daily life around their incontinence, often unaware that there is a simple outpatient solution for this embarrassing condition.
The Biodesign Tension-Free Urethral Sling provides a minimally invasive approach to restoring your patient's continence. This specially designed tension-free sling supports the urethra and bladder neck.
Biodesign communicates with your patient's body, signaling surrounding cells to grow across the scaffold. As a result, the body restores itself, remodeling into strong, functional tissue without negative side effects such as erosion or encapsulation.
Cook Medical–Expanding the applications of advanced tissue repair.
Features and benefits
- Resistant to migration and erosion.
- Restores natural form and function.
- Minimal scarring.
- Rehydrates quickly.
Tips
- To avoid irritating the surrounding tissues, transect the sling material at the level of the rectus fascia.
- Use only antiseptics and antimicrobials that have been proven compatible with wound healing. Problems have been reported with gentamicin, povidone iodine, bacitracin, polymyxin B and vancomycin.
- The Biodesign Tension-Free Urethral Sling can be placed by antegrade or retrograde approach.
- After surgery, patients should abstain from heavy lifting, strenuous exercise and sexual intercourse for 4 to 6 weeks.
