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Through General Surgical Innovations' patented tissue dissection technology, GSI has developed a range of products that enable and advance the use of minimally invasive surgical techniques and procedures that can deliver substantial clinical and cost benefits for the patient, surgeon, hospital and healthcare provider. GSI believes that its core technology can also be leveraged to create new products to be used for a variety of surgical procedures throughout the body.

Through a small incision on the skin's surface, a surgeon uses products from GSI's proprietary line of SPACEMAKER^® balloon dissector systems to gently create a predictable space between naturally occurring tissue layers at a surgical site, thus enhancing the surgeon's ability to perform minimally invasive surgery (MIS). Patients undergoing MIS generally experience less pain and blood loss, recuperate in a shorter period of time, have smaller incisions and less scarring and develop fewer post-operative wound complications than do open surgery patients, and are therefore usually able to return more quickly to their normal lifestyles. In addition, these procedures may require shorter hospital stays, leading to reduced costs to the healthcare provider and enabling the hospital to become more efficient.