A high priority in any orthopedic surgical procedure is to reduce inflammation and trauma that results from the cutting and manipulation of the soft tissues surrounding the joint itself. Reduce inflammation, speed your patients' healing and get them back on their feet again sooner.

Our HARMONIC SYNERGY^® Blades deliver precisely directed mechanical energy with an ultrasonic vibrating blade that both coagulates and cuts and allows you to dissect and spot coagulate with a single instrument. Because the devices use mechanical energy instead of electricity, there's minimal lateral thermal spread and desiccation of tissue, and minimal smoke.* And their coagulating abilities give you access to the joint space with minimal bleeding.^†

At Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., we believe innovation is the key to providing better care for patients. Using the input of hundreds of surgeons, we've refined our HARMONIC SYNERGY Blades to make them easier to use, more ergonomic and as effective as possible. This has helped make them a trusted device in more than 10 million procedures worldwide.

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* In a comparative tissue cutting study using chicken breast, the HARMONIC Combination Hooked Blade (HK105) cut at a lower tissue temperature (average temperature of 128 F or 53.3 C) compared with the monopolar electrosurgery pencil (average temperature of 230 F or 110 C). The difference was significant (p < .001).¹
† In a vessel sealing comparison, the HARMONIC Combination Blade (HK105) sealed more 1-2 mm vessels than electrosurgery. Study conducted in porcine mesentery. In a pre-clinical study, porcine mesentery was used to compare the number of 1-2 mm vessels coagulated while cutting. The HARMONIC Hooked Blade ("HK105", power level = 5) was compared to steel scalpel and monopolar electrosurgery (power level = 40W blend 1). The steel scalpel sealed zero of 20 vessels (0%), electrosurgery sealed 3 of 70 vessels (4.3%), and HARMONIC^® HK105 sealed 64 out of 68 vessels (94.1%). Statistical analysis indicated that HARMONIC^® HK105 sealed significantly more vessels while cutting than either the steel scalpel or electrosurgery (p < .001).¹