For over four decades, the focus of the company’s founder has been on reducing the morbidity of surgery through the development of minimally invasive and endoscopic surgery. Recently, given a focus on urolithiasis, the University of California Curiosity and Innovation Laboratory has focused on how to best render patients with kidney stones, entirely stone free with a nonincisional procedure using endoscopic techniques (i.e. ureteroscopy). To this end, the company’s principle focus has been on developing a continuous flow, triple lumen, series of bespoke disposable flexible ureteroscopes providing for simultaneous irrigation, laser fragmentation, and aspiration of all stone fragments. In conjunction with developing these ureteroscopes of different sizes, there has also been development of a user-friendly force sensor that provides for precise measurement of the force being applied during passage of the ureteroscope or of a ureteral dilator or ureteral access sheath; armed with this simple device, urologists can be assured of providing their patients with the safe passage of the largest possible instruments for efficient and effective kidney and ureteral stone therapy. This is the first development of a series of endoscopes that are truly patient specific, based on gender and determination of the safe distensibility of each individual’s ureter.
In essence, our commitment is to innovating endoscopic urological surgery for better patient outcomes.
