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Entry into veterinary market
Entry into veterinary market.
About this update from Surgical Innovations Group Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n RNS Number : 0200E Surgical Innovations Group PLC 14 December 2009 \n \n\n\n\n\n\nPress Release\n\n\n14 December 2009\n\n\n\n\n\nSurgical Innovations™ Group plc\n\n(\"SI\" or \"the Group\")\n\nEntry into veterinary market\n\nSurgical Innovations™ Group plc (AIM: SUN), the designer and manufacturer of innovative surgical devices, is delighted to announce the success of its first veterinary laparoscopic procedure, which was carried out by leading veterinary surgeon Romain Pizzi for the first time on a reindeer at Edinburgh Zoo, using the Group's specialist instrumentation. \n \nCommenting on the surgery, Graham Bowland Managing Director of Surgical Innovations Limited, said: \"The veterinary market represents a significant opportunity for SI. It is estimated that approximately one in two UK households are pet owners. Veterinary surgeons perform an average of 600,000 open abdominal procedures every year, but it is believed that only 1% of vets currently practice laparoscopic surgery. We are working closely with the UK's leading vets and organisations including the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and Ark Surgical, the UK's fastest growing veterinary distributor, to educate the veterinary community of the benefits of laparoscopic surgery. By providing the right instrumentation we hope to enable UK vets to introduce laparoscopic techniques as part of their standard operating procedures.\"\n \nOpen abdominal surgery is currently the standard procedure in animals; however there are a number of negative factors associated with it including more post-operative pain, a higher risk of post-operative complications and infections and a long recovery period. The minimally invasive nature of laparoscopic surgery significantly reduces post-operative pain and the risk of infection, which means the recovery period is faster and the animal requires reduced post-operative care. For veterinary surgeons laparoscopic surgery offers better visualisation of the operated area, allowing them to be more precise and reach areas that are difficult to see in open surgery such as the liver and the&nbs...