An IVC filter is a small strainer type of device used to filter out blood clots and to assist in preventing them from forming and becoming pulmonary embolisms (a blood clot that travels to the lungs). IVC stands for Inferior Vena Cava, which is the large vein that enters the upper right chamber of the heart and delivers oxygen depleted blood from the legs, pelvis and abdomen back to the heart. …

Over 600,000 hysterectomies are performed each year in the United States, and nearly half of the procedures are minimally invasive. Over the years, a growing number of these procedures are performed with the aid of power morcellators.

Power morcellators are cutting tools used by general and gynecological surgeons in minimally invasive laparoscopic hysterectomy and myomectomies. In a myomecto…