Liberatv - Bee-Blip™, From the Operating Table to the World Championship: Surgeon Thomas Giesen’s Invention

Sometimes an innovation stems from revolutionary technology. Other times, it stems from a much simpler question: isn’t there a better way to do this?

That’s what Dr. Thomas Giesen—an FMH-certified specialist in hand surgery, orthopedic surgery, and traumatology, who works primarily at the Ars Medica Clinic in Gravesano—asked himself about two and a half years ago while operating on a complex fracture alongside an assistant.

The problem seemed trivial: how could he accurately determine the depth of the hole just drilled into the bone in order to select a screw of the correct length?

That question led to the creation of Bee-Blip™, a patented electronic system designed to provide measurements directly during drilling, eliminating the need for the subsequent step of using a traditional manual depth gauge.

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