Why Choose Ultravision
For Laparoscopic Surgery?

Laparoscopic Surgery - Alesi Surgical

Ultravision™ helps healthcare providers deliver best-in-class care.

Providing staff and patients with the only solution that delivers advanced visualization, prevents surgical smoke from entering the OR whilst minimizing patient carbon dioxide exposure during laparoscopic surgery.

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Benefits to Ultravision Stakeholders

For the surgeon

  • Advances visualization
  • Reduces camera cleaning
  • Reduces interruptions in surgery
  • Stable pneumoperitoneum
  • Facilitates low pressure, low flow surgery
  • Silent in operation

For the patient

  • Minimizes exposure to cold, dry CO2
  • Delivers the proven benefits of low pressure, low flow surgery
  • Reduces time under anaesthetic

For the nurse

  • Prevents release of surgical smoke into the OR
  • Minimizes bioaerosol in CO2 leaks
  • Performance verified on subviral-sized particles with >99% efficiency

For the administrator

  • Reduces risk for patient and OR staff
  • Improves staff wellbeing
  • Optimizes efficiency in laparoscopic surgery
  • Cost-effective alternative to advanced, high-flow insufflators
  • Lowers carbon footprint through CO2 reduction

Ultravision Performance Comparison...

Benefit Ultravision™ Advanced
Insufflator
Smoke evacuation system Passive
filter
Reduces interruptions to surgery caused by visual impairment
Performance to sub-viral sized particles
Stable pneumoperitoneum
Reduces CO2 use
Reduces operating time
Best-in-class control of bioaerosols
Reduced need to clean lens
Silent in operation
Cost of equipment ££ £££ ££ £

Ultravision sources: Ansell et al (2014); Levine et al (2020); Buggisch et al (2020); Alesi internal report DREP-002.

What the surgeons say

Having to stop repeatedly to clean the lens can be challenging. With Ultravision that’s not really a concern.

Dr. Ramon Yera - Minimally Invasive GYN Surgeon at Kaiser Permanente, US

Put simply, it gives you the field of vision you need.

Mr Gourab Misra University Hospitals North Midlands, UK

A benefit that possibly goes unnoticed by many, is that it really helps when teaching junior doctors due to the clarity of visual field.

Mr John Conneely Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin

The point being the hospital needed Ultravision because it is a ‘game changer’.

Dr. Ramon Yera - Minimally Invasive GYN Surgeon at Kaiser Permanente, US

Electrostatic precipitation will be the next big thing in laparoscopic surgery.

Dr Jin S. Yoo, MD - Assistant Professor of Surgery Duke University Health System, US
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Accessories

Ionwand Pack

Feature

• Percutaneous 2.5mm catheter and trocar.
• Ionwand cable.

Suitability

• Maximum flexibility.
• Provides surgeon with ability to place Ionwand electrode where he/she prefers for optimal performance and ergonomics..

5mm Integrated Trocar

Feature

• Dual function 5mm trocar.
• Dilating trocar.
• Fixation ribs on trocar sleeve.
• Ionwand cable.

Suitability

• Removes need for separate percutaneous incision.
• Replaces a standard 5mm trocar.
• Ideal for use where 5mm trocar is used an energy or grasper trocar.

Integrated Monopolar L-hook

Feature

• 5mm L-hook with integrated Ionwand electrodes.
• Automatic smoke-clearing activation.
• Cut/coag, plus Ultravision manual activation button.

Suitability

• All procedures where a monopolar hook is the preferred energy source.

Want to see more? Ultravision in use

Watch a range of videos to see Ultravision in action. Our footage features a range of live cases across various specialties.

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Our product brochures are available to download in ready to print format for both open and laparascopic products.

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Questions and Answers

• Ultravision2 delivers a maximum of 0.2mA to the patient. This is 250x less power than a monopolar instrument set at 40W.
• The low output also means Ultravision2 uses at least 15x less power than a smoke evacuation system.

• No – there is not enough energy to generate heat in the Ionwand and therefore, no risk of thermal injury.
• The Ionwand is manufactured using softened, medical grade stainless steel and verified its safety on a range of tissues during development.
• Alesi has never recorded any incidence of perforation to bowel or other tissues (in fact, no adverse incidents in over 30,000 cases).

• Passive filtration relies on the (limited) pneumoperitoneum pressure to force CO2 through a filter that has small pores to trap the smoke.
• Because it is a dilution-based process, it is inefficient and slow.
• It increases patient CO2 exposure and can also result in unstable pneumo.
• Often passive filters become wet, the pores get blocked, and the filter stops working.
• This can happen in as little as 15 minutes and often several filters are required for one procedure.

• A smoke evacuator relies on a vacuum pump to pull CO2 through a filter.
• The smoke evacuator is noisy and distracting; the tubing is cumbersome and inconvenient.
• It dramatically increases patient CO2 exposure and results in unstable pneumo.
• If it is too aggressive, tissue can be sucked up the trocar and potentially damaged.

• Advanced insufflators are very expensive – both capital and consumables.
• They have multiple modes – expensive options add value, cheaper ones do not.
• Some advanced insufflators create a constant leak of CO2 and smoke into the OR.
• All advanced insufflators dramatically increase patient CO2 exposure.
• Ultravision has been independently verified to provide best-in-class visualization, smoke management, stable pneumo and CO2 consumption.