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For a start-up company and small business, it is important to find (through innovation and research) a niche field and become extremely good at this field. This is the best way to compete with larger companies and to achieve progress, but it is also the glue that keeps teams together.

How to achieve best visibility without increase in intrarenal pressure. We have established best practices on the safe use of hand operated irrigation devices during flexible uretereorenoscopy.

We have made it our mission to understand irrigation and its effect on intrarenal pressure during flexible ureterorenoscopy and that is why we made Peditrol.

Kidney stones is one of the most common diseases in modern times, it is estimated that more than half a million people go to emergency rooms for kidney stone problems, each year. We chatted with Dr Odion Aire, Specialist Urologist at the Urology Hospital in Pretoria to answer all your burning questions about this disease.

Good visibility should not come at the cost of a vastly increased intrarenal pressure and associated risk of pyelotubular and pyelovenous backflow, which in turn may lead to Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) or full-blown sepsis.

During flexible renoscopy and stone lithotripsy there are two contradicting irrigation requirements. The first is the need to achieve visibility and calls for large amounts of irrigation. The other, is the need to control intrarenal pressure ensuring it is as low as possible, which in turn calls for as little irrigation as possible.

Pawel Wisniewski of Wismed joined Authority Magazine in their interview series on The 5 Things You Need to Create a Highly Successful Career in the Health and Wellness Industry.

Today disposable ureteroscopes perform just as well, if not better than their reusable counterparts in terms of manoeuvrability, quality of vision, and efficacy, and do not require re-sterilisation. But hospitals and Medical Aid Schemes in South Africa have been slow in adopting new technology, largely due to the perceived cost. Let's compare.

As the saying goes, overnight success doesn’t happen overnight. Having started Medical Device Company – Wismed, nearly two decades ago, Polish-born Pawel Wisniewski and CEO has been recognized in Europe with award of funding in the category of Intelligent Development by the EU to foster innovation and research in minimally invasive urology and to expand the company’s product offering.