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Smart Surgical Appliances, a developer of devices that improve the safety of minimally invasive surgery, has secured a £330,000 round of investment.

Smart Surgical Appliances (SSA), a UK-based developer of medical devices to improve the safety of minimally invasive surgery (MIS), has secured a £330,000 round of investment from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), Imperial Innovations, EF Investments and SSA executive chairman Paul Donnelly.

SSA focuses on producing sensor-enabled technologies for MIS and plans to use the investment round to make further technical and regulatory progress on its lead device, SmartBougie, an oesophageal dilator that measures the elasticity in the external walls of the oesophagus.

Adam James of SSA said: ‘During MIS, it is essential to know that you have dilated the area enough and are not risking rupturing tissue. SmartBougie allows surgeons to monitor dilatation more accurately than before and also allows for the opposite scenario where surgeons are “tightening” the region during a surgical repair and want to make sure it is not too tight and not too loose.’

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