MarkerMesh is neonatal protection device that I created, it is to be used during routine circumcisons that protects an infants life. This funding will help raise enough money to reach the market!
I’d like the reader to close your eyes for a few seconds- imagine the birth of your son, imagine him being taken away shortly after birth for a routine circumcision (the most common medical procedure in the us and worldwide) and imagine a doctor telling you shortly thereafter that a horrific (a 1 in a million complication ensued) and he didn’t make it. Now also imagine being that doctor, who just finished medical school perhaps and was finally entering into the reality of a lifelong dream, of saving lives- he could not save that 1-day old infant. Now imagine being told, that these incidents occur exceedingly far more frequently than 1/million, and this could have been prevented with a device that costs about 6 dollars to make. That device is called MarkerMesh, created out of necessity and desire to obliterate the potential of this experience altogether. And though it was initially designed and developed for the infant whose future, whose wellbeing, who’s live is saved, as we all well know, tragedy is often tangential and it in additional to protection of neonates, this device is meant to protects families and the physician from unimaginable lifelong trauma.
Early studies obtained from Israeli (where circumcisions are most common and where the majority of the male population is circumcised at birth) shows us that about 25% of circumcision complications results from slippage wounds, and half of those are severe enough to warrant operating room level intervention. For categorically horrifying reasons- we hear very little in the media about circumcision-related deaths compared with other causes. But as you can gleam from this data quoted above- it is profoundly more common than all. 1/millions it certainly is not. My company brings a whole new meaning to being a physician who saves lives, as it is also focused on advancing the standard of care through groundbreaking research and the development of other life-saving instruments. Our competition is hopeful optimism and caution- which we strongly believe is an unacceptable risk in a setting where the patient is not a sedated, consenting adult, but instead a crying, thrashing baby. Currently there exist nothing else that protects neonates during circumcisions from life threatening injuries during this procedure. Our patent protection is for the utility of the devices, itself, i.e. protection of underlying structures and expands to other materials as well- making it tough as steel. Physicians who routinely perform and teach circumcision have responded with enthusiastic support for this to become the new standard of care. To that end, During this time- medical societies such as the National Academy of Family Physicians have also featured MarkerMesh in their quarterly magazine and the response has been nothing short of encouraging. A CDC Sfor standards of care consensus statements are our next goal. I currently aim to easily, cheaply and safely incorporate MarkerMesh into every circumcision kit worldwide and reduce to risk of neonatal circumcision to as close to zero as possible, because now with the advent of MarkerMesh, no one should ever expect otherwise. To put a neonate under any avoidable risk is simply no longer acceptable- the complication risk from circumcision, which has no therapeutic value, needs to be as close to zero for the infant’s sake, all the more so because he is never properly consented.
The focus here is MarkerMesh, a neonatal circumcision protection device that is made of thinly woven, 304 stainless steel mesh- making it malleable and impenetrable by both needle and blade by any force from an accidental slip of the hand. It can easily be incorporated into premade circumcision kits or shipped separately to hospital or clinic providers that make their own. MarkerMesh has been classified as class 1 medical device and is manufactured locally here in Reno NV. It has been strategically engineered to fit any Gomco sized clamp used in neonatal circumcisions for optimal protection of all organs. During our testing phase in initial product development, we calculated the force of a “reasonable slip event”. We defined this event as a slip that could be produced during the regular practice and procedure of a circumcision, namely with a scalpel held with correct form and incisional direction. With an impact measuring device, we measured this “reasonable slip event” to equate to 50-137 newtons of force, a force that our prototype was able to withstand using both hypodermic needles used in local anesthesia and surgical blades. My goal is to easily, cheaply and safely incorporate MarkerMesh into every circumcision kit worldwide and reduce to risk of neonatal circumcision to as close to zero as possible, because now with the advent of marker mesh, no one should ever expect otherwise.
