Covidien Announces Innovation: Delivered Mobile Surgical Tour

Initiative Brings Single-Incision Laparoscopic Device and Groundbreaking Procedures to Surgeons around the Country

NORTH HAVEN, Conn.--(HSMN NewsFeed)--Covidien (NYSE: COV ), a leading global provider of healthcare products, today announced the launch of the Innovation: Delivered tour, a mobile program that will introduce surgeons, residents, nurses and hospital administrators around the country to the SILS™ Port Multiple Instrument Access Device.

The SILS Port is an advanced, single-incision laparoscopic device that reduces the four, ½-inch or smaller incisions normally associated with traditional laparoscopic surgery to just one incision in the belly button. The SILS Port procedures are used in gynecologic, bariatric and urologic surgeries, among other specialties1, 2, 3, 4.

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