It is understood that a female patient underwent lung cancer resection surgery, which cost more than 60,000 yuan in total, of which the cost of surgical instruments was as high as 40,000 yuan. In the past two years, I have been going to the hospital for follow-up examinations and found that more and more people have undergone lung nodule surgery, so I naturally thought that the demand for surgical instruments will also increase, and whether the companies selling this product are also profitable.
At present, the medical industry is in a downward stage due to centralized procurement, anti-corruption and other measures. The medical ETF heavyweight stock Yaoming Kangde has fallen 75% from its highest point. It should be a good time to enter the medical industry at this time, so I tried to understand the minimally invasive surgical instruments that are closer to my profession.
What are minimally invasive surgical instruments?
Minimally invasive means opening a tiny aperture in the human body, and sending special instruments or chemicals into the human body to achieve surgical operations such as inactivation, resection, repair or reconstruction of lesions, deformities, and traumas in the human body. Its characteristics are small trauma, fast recovery, and little pain. It is mainly used in general surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, urology, thoracic surgery and orthopedics.
The main equipment used can be divided into two categories: endoscopes and supporting instruments. The function of endoscopes is observation, and the function of set instruments is resection, suturing, etc.
Laparoscopic suturing instrument laparoscopic linear stapler
An essential part of suturing surgery, the hemostatic effect of ultrasonic scalpel cannot replace suturing. Previous surgeries were all sutured with thread. It was okay to encounter small holes or ligatures of small blood vessels. Once it came to internal organs such as esophagus, lungs, gastrointestinal tract, liver, spleen and pancreas, doctors had to spend several or even more than ten hours on suturing. The emergence of a medical "stapler" made surgical suturing more efficient, made many difficult and complex surgeries simpler, and greatly reduced the incidence of surgical complications
There are many types of staplers according to demand, and the more common one is laparoscopic surgical stapler, as shown below
With the increasingly serious trend of China's aging population, the densely populated groups of people born in the 1970s and 1980s in my country have entered a period of high incidence of diseases, and the number of minimally invasive surgeries will definitely increase significantly in the future