A California orthopedist performed the first in-human procedure using a New Hampshire-developed single-use 4K arthroscope. Manchester-based Pristine Surgical said it developed its Summit device with the goal of addressing the difficulties that come with traditional surgical visualization. The device comes in packaging that is sterile and designed for single use, and is pre-installed with the Pristine Connect cloud-based software, which facilitates video capturing, automated inventory management, digital training and other value-added services.

It is easy to set up and enhances predictability and workflow, Pristine said. The procedure using Summit was carried out by shoulder and knee arthroscopy expert Dr. Mark Getelman at the Southern California Orthopedic Institute.

In a statement, Getelman said that Summit gives surgeons “the ability to get a new 4K scope for every procedure while improving our workflow,” making the device “an exciting product for our operating room.

Pristine CEO Bryan Lord hailed the first in-human procedure, saying it “marks the beginning of our commercial release, where we will begin the process of rolling out Summit to ASCs across the U.S. and eventually worldwide.”

The Summit device received clearance in January from the Food and Drug Administration.

Shown at the April 14 ribbon-cutting to celebrate the opening of the new 240,000-square-foot, five-story patient pavilion at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon are, from left: David Duncan, vice president of facilities management at Dartmouth Health; Dr. Edward J. Merrens, chief clinical officer, Dartmouth Health; Susan A. Reeves, executive vice president of DHMC; Roberta Hines, chair of DHMC trustees; Joanne M. Conroy, CEO and president of Dartmouth Health; Edward Stansfield, chair of Dartmouth Health trustees; Jeff O’ Brian, chief operating officer at DHMC; and Scott T. Slogic, director of patient pavilion activation at DHMC. The 64-bed facility marks the first major expansion of the healthcare provider’s Lebanon campus.