Secant Medical®, will be exhibiting at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) 2011 Annual Meeting in San Diego, Calif., on February 15-19, 2011, at booth #6042. The company will present the advantages of biomedical textiles as an enabling technology to advance the next generation of minimally invasive orthopedic devices.

Perkasie, Penna. – January 20th, 2011 –Secant Medical®, the industry leader in design, development, and custom manufacturing services for implantable biomedical textiles, will be exhibiting at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) 2011 Annual Meeting in San Diego, Calif., on February 15-19, 2011, at booth #6042.  

The meeting is the largest gathering of companies displaying products and services specifically designed for the orthopedic surgeon.  It attracts over 14,000 domestic and international physicians, and other healthcare professionals, and offers the best single opportunity to compare products, attend educational demonstrations and review solutions from more than 500 companies from around the world.

“The AAOS conference provides an excellent opportunity to present the advantages of biomedical textiles as an enabling technology to advance the next generation of minimally invasive surgical procedures,” says Kyle Mullens, Director of Business Development-Orthopedics at Secant Medical.  “It also allows us to highlight our continuum of services, collaborative and confidential engineering process, and deep knowledge of the medical device field.”

Engineered fabric structures can create shape transformation components for minimally invasive delivery of orthopedics devices, ordered scaffold structures for cell proliferation, and flexible, load-sharing implants -- to name a few.  Secant Medical also offers design opportunities for leveraging bioresorbable hybrid constructions that provide versatility and customization beyond the boundaries of the standard repertoire of materials.

About Secant Medical:

Secant MedicalTM, LLC is the leader in custom-developed biomedical textile structures for medical devices, helping customers meet challenges to bring device solutions to market quickly and effectively. Using constantly evolving high-performance metallic and polymeric biomaterials, the company designs the textile structures that client innovations require in developing the next generation orthopedic, cardiovascular, tissue-engineered and neurological devices, and new general surgery resources.   Secant Medical is a business unit of Prodesco, Inc., the leader in the design, development and manufacture of engineered fabric structures for the medical, industrial and aerospace industries since 1943. In 2008, Prodesco became part of Fenner PLC, a worldwide leader in reinforced polymer engineering headquartered in Yorkshire, England. For more information, contact Joannie Anthony at 215-257-8680 x199 or [email protected], or visit secantmedical.com/release-entry.php.