Aeos Biomedical - Target Tape

• The Target Tape™ surgical aid is a disposable, adhesive sticker with grid or ruler markings on it that appear in medical scans. 
• It is immediately removed and leaves behind an ink imprint of the pattern on the skin. 
• The surgeon can now correlate their target site to the guide pattern on the medical scan, and then reference this point on the patient’s skin during the operation.

The current methods of planning and identifying incision sites are inconsistent and difficult. Over half of all spinal surgeons have operated on the wrong vertebra [1]. Localization difficulties are evident in various types of surgical procedures, from finding arteries, to placing bone screws. When surgeons identify locations of interest using a medical scan, they are dependent upon palpating for bony landmarks and eyeballing distances to find the site on the patient during the operation.

The Target Tape™ surgical aid is a general, multi-purpose device, which is compatible with countless procedures that use pre or intra-operative imaging.

 ¹ Mody M, Nourbakhhsh A, Stahl D, Gibbs M et al. The prevalence of wrong level surgery among spine surgeons. Spine 2008;33(2):194-8.