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Smith & Nephew launches new distal radius fracture treatment system
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Smith & Nephew recently announced the launch of its D-RAD Smart Pack System for the treatment of distal radius fractures.
With four complete single-use, sterile instrument kits comprising implants and a tray of sterile, packaged fasteners and templates, the system allows for better efficiency among hospital and OR staff by cutting an eight-step process down to a two-step process, according to a company press release.
“With the D-RAD Smart Pack System, we’ve taken a burdensome and costly process and streamlined it without sacrificing the intraoperative flexibility surgeons need to treat patients,” Mark Waugh, vice president of extremities and limb restoration for Smith & Nephew, said in the press release
The D-RAD Smart Pack System’s single-use kits each include an anatomically contoured, four-hole volar plate and single-use instrumentation, a tray with individually packaged cortex screws, locking screws, locking pegs and single-use plate templates. The screws are individually packaged to prevent the waste of unused screws, according to the release.