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Our oval Face Protector is lightweight, used for supporting a patient placed in the prone position on a Jackson Table or a normal operating table. It contributes to the patients’ perfect comfort while reducing pressure related injury and complications.

As a doctor, you’ll know the value of really listening. That’s exactly what we did when creating our best selling No-Bubble TURP Irrigation set. It’s the culmination of many conversations with experienced urology nurses and their shared problems.

A medical chair that ensures a comfortable sitting position for the surgeon throughout the medical procedure. The sophisticated mechanism ensures that the saddle moves with the center of gravity of the upper body as the seated person changes position.

The best place to start is at the beginning, we are so proud to have been featured on Start Up to Follow read our success story.

For long, the two contradicting irrigation requirements during flexible ureterorenoscopy have been an Achilles heel for most surgeons. Worry not, because WE have two simple strategies to solve this challenge.

Our novel access sheath, Syphon enhances drainage of irrigation fluid from the kidney and prevents build up of excessive intrarenal pressure during ureterorenoscopy.

Single-use ureteroscopes not only combat issues of reprocessing, contamination and costly repairs, but 'mixed strategies' with integrated use of both single use and reusable flexible ureteroscopes, prevent reusable ureteroscopes from unnecessary breakages; and prevent shortages.

Our devices have been featured in several publications and congress presentations. From our novel syphon ureteric access sheath published in the British Journal of Urology to the Peditrol that has been on the market for years.

Wismed’s hand-held irrigation devices can be used for both flexible and rigid ureterorenoscopy, and have some distinct advantages over other medical devices on the market.

For a start-up company and small business, it is important to find (through innovation and research) a niche field and become extremely good at this field. This is the best way to compete with larger companies and to achieve progress, but it is also the glue that keeps teams together.

How to achieve best visibility without increase in intrarenal pressure. We have established best practices on the safe use of hand operated irrigation devices during flexible uretereorenoscopy.

We have made it our mission to understand irrigation and its effect on intrarenal pressure during flexible ureterorenoscopy and that is why we made Peditrol.

Kidney stones is one of the most common diseases in modern times, it is estimated that more than half a million people go to emergency rooms for kidney stone problems, each year. We chatted with Dr Odion Aire, Specialist Urologist at the Urology Hospital in Pretoria to answer all your burning questions about this disease.

Good visibility should not come at the cost of a vastly increased intrarenal pressure and associated risk of pyelotubular and pyelovenous backflow, which in turn may lead to Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) or full-blown sepsis.

During flexible renoscopy and stone lithotripsy there are two contradicting irrigation requirements. The first is the need to achieve visibility and calls for large amounts of irrigation. The other, is the need to control intrarenal pressure ensuring it is as low as possible, which in turn calls for as little irrigation as possible.

Pawel Wisniewski of Wismed joined Authority Magazine in their interview series on The 5 Things You Need to Create a Highly Successful Career in the Health and Wellness Industry.

Today disposable ureteroscopes perform just as well, if not better than their reusable counterparts in terms of manoeuvrability, quality of vision, and efficacy, and do not require re-sterilisation. But hospitals and Medical Aid Schemes in South Africa have been slow in adopting new technology, largely due to the perceived cost. Let's compare.

As the saying goes, overnight success doesn’t happen overnight. Having started Medical Device Company – Wismed, nearly two decades ago, Polish-born Pawel Wisniewski and CEO has been recognized in Europe with award of funding in the category of Intelligent Development by the EU to foster innovation and research in minimally invasive urology and to expand the company’s product offering.