PHACON’s newest innovation: the Pectus Bar

At PHACON, we strive for continuous improvement and constant innovation. We are delighted to present one of our newest inventions: a 3D model of a ribcage based on real-life data including a variety of human tissue characteristics (bone, cartilage, muscle, skin, and nerves) commissioned by KLS Martin to practice pectus excavatum repair procedure. Our newest innovation bears the name PHACON Pectus Bar, and it is a product born out of months of research, revision, and development working alongside field experts to ensure a product where practice has a haptic feeling as close as if one were to operate on a real ribcage.

The PHACON Pectus Bar details a malformity in the torso with a sunken sternum to simulate real-life pectus excavatum based on real medical image data (CT, MR, DVT). This condition varies in gravity, and in some cases, it can even affect heart and pulmonary function.

PHACON’s Pectus Bar features a torso case that resembles a male torso so that medics can practice interventions through the skin layers, learning to get to the ribcage. Likewise, the case can open to make access to the ribcage area easier, i.e. to check how the ribcage model was intervened on and which areas of the structure were damaged or repaired.

In collaboration with KLS Martin, we developed the PHACON Pectus Bar to demonstrate MIRPE, or the Minimally Invasive Repair of Pectus Excavatum with KLS Martin’s connector bars. Thank you KLS Martin for trusting our research and our products.

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