October 10, 2022 – Livac USA, Inc. has been awarded a national group purchasing agreement for a New Technology Breakthrough with Premier, Inc. (“Premier”). Effective October 1, 2022 through March 31, 2024, the new agreement allows Premier members, at their discretion, to take advantage of special pricing and terms pre-negotiated by Premier for the LiVac Retractor System (“LiVac Retractor”), in the product category of Endo-Mechanical Products.
on to create a vacuum to join the liver and diaphragm. Unlike most other surgical retractors, the LiVac Retractor does not require a dedicated surgical incision for insertion and placement. The LiVac Retractor is inserted through an existing port incision and placed between either lobe of the patient’s liver, or even the spleen.
The LiVac Retractor is the only retractor able to gently lift solid organs such as the liver and spleen using suction – reducing patient trauma, postoperative pain, surgical times, and overall procedure costs. The LiVac Retractor can be used in all upper gastrointestinal surgeries, including laparoscopic, robotic, and revisional surgeries. The LiVac Retractor is backed by clinical evidence showing reduced surgical procedure times, reduced patient post-op pain and pain medication, one less scar, and as an enabling device for complex robotic and revisional procedures.
Gentle organ retraction with the LiVac Retractor provides significant advantages to both surgeon and patient outcomes as the device does not cause any tissue or organ damage, sits outside the surgical field, requires one less incision, and does not clash with robot arms. The LiVac Retractor has been used in more than 2,000 clinical procedures with no adverse events.