SmartTRAK spotlights Pristine Surgical in an interview at AANA 2025 in Washington, DC.
Bryan Lord, CEO of Pristine Surgical, discussed the company’s Summit 4K, single-use arthroscopic camera in an interview with SmartTRAK at the Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA) 2025 Meeting in Washington, D.C .
Watch the following video to learn more about Pristine Surgical and its novel technology. (21:27 min.) A link to download a complete transcript of the interview is also provided below.
Hey, everybody, it's Andy Knapik, Senior Analyst for SmartTRAK for all things sports medicine and arthroscopy. I'm here at the AANA meeting in Washington, D.C. We're at the Pristine Surgical booth. I'm joined by Bryan Lord, CEO of Pristine Surgical, and here just to talk about what they have going on. They have a single-use arthroscopic camera.
Bryan, I've known you now for probably a few years, we've talked about this quite a bit. When we look in the video capital world, we see a lot of different things going on right now. We have traditional capital systems like the Strykers, and Smith+Nephews, Arthrexes of the world, with a full tower. We have some wireless options out there now that are pretty intriguing. And then we have some single-use options. Arthrex has a nanoscope and then you guys have yours as well.
So, talk about how this got started, what benefits you initially saw, and how is that progressing now.
BL: Yes, so the genesis of the scope that we see here today actually was in a rather niche application. Some docs said, ‘Look, we think we could do some things different in visualization.’ And they were looking for ways to do some different angular types of views, 30, 70, in more of a pannable configuration. The early days of the development we did in partnership with a group called DECA Research in Manchester, New Hampshire, led by the noted medtech developer and entrepreneur engineer, Dean Kamen. In the conversation with those doctors and Dean, the concept came up (Dean's idea) to say, ‘Look, we think that we could do this single use. Would that be interesting?’
At that time, it was still early in the ways that people were understanding the proliferation of digital technologies, but everybody knew, including Dean, who's always been in the forefront, this was really a big idea. How could we take today's burgeoning areas of digital photography and bring that into the surgical suite? And it was early on that we knew that it was ...
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