Profile: Medos S.A. specializes in diagnostic and therapeutic products. We provide instruments for shunt system implantation, central nervous system shunts & valves and burr hole covers.
FDA Registration Number: 8031062
US Agent: Yolanda Bolanos / Codman & Shurtleff, Inc.
Phone: +1-(305)-265-2918 Fax: +1-(305)-265-6889 E-Mail:
• Adenoid Curettes (FDA Code: KBJ / 874.4420) |
• Adult Tongue Depressor (FDA Code: FMA / 880.6230) A tongue depressor is a device intended to displace the tongue to facilitate examination of the surrounding organs and tissues. |
• Aneurysm Clip (FDA Code: HCH / 882.5200) An aneurysm clip is a device used to occlude an intracranial aneurysm (a balloonlike sac formed on a blood vessel) to prevent it from bleeding or bursting. |
• Aneurysm Clip Applier (FDA Code: HCI / 882.4175) An aneurysm clip applier is a device used by the surgeon for holding and applying intracranial aneurysm clips. |
• Artery Vascular Clamp (FDA Code: DXC / 870.4450) A vascular clamp is a surgical instrument used to occlude a blood vessel temporarily. |
• Bender (FDA Code: HXW / 888.4540) An orthopedic manual surgical instrument is a nonpowered hand-held device intended for medical purposes to manipulate tissue, or for use with other devices in orthopedic surgery. This generic type of device includes the cerclage applier, awl, bender, drill brace, broach, burr, corkscrew, countersink, pin crimper, wire cutter, prosthesis driver, extractor, file, fork, needle holder, impactor, bending or contouring instrument, compression instrument, passer, socket positioner, probe, femoral neck punch, socket pusher, reamer, rongeur, scissors, screwdriver, bone skid, staple driver, bone screw starter, surgical stripper, tamp, bone tap, trephine, wire twister, and wrench. |
• Bone Clamp (FDA Code: HXD / 878.4800) A manual surgical instrument for general use is a nonpowered, hand-held, or hand-manipulated device, either reusable or disposable, intended to be used in various general surgical procedures. The device includes the applicator, clip applier, biopsy brush, manual dermabrasion brush, scrub brush, cannula, ligature carrier, chisel, clamp, contractor, curette, cutter, dissector, elevator, skin graft expander, file, forceps, gouge, instrument guide, needle guide, hammer, hemostat, amputation hook, ligature passing and knot-tying instrument, knife, blood lancet, mallet, disposable or reusable aspiration and injection needle, disposable or reusable suturing needle, osteotome, pliers, rasp, retainer, retractor, saw, scalpel blade, scalpel handle, one-piece scalpel, snare, spatula, stapler, disposable or reusable stripper, stylet, suturing apparatus for the stomach and intestine, measuring tape, and calipers. A surgical instrument that has specialized uses in a specific medical specialty is classified in separate regulations in parts 868 through 892. |
• Bone Taps (FDA Code: HWX / 888.4540) |
• Burr Hole Cover (FDA Code: GXR / 882.5250) A burr hole cover is a plastic or metal device used to cover or plug holes drilled into the skull during surgery and to reattach cranial bone removed during surgery. |
• Cables (FDA Code: ISN / 890.3420) An external limb prosthetic component is a device intended for medical purposes that, when put together with other appropriate components, constitutes a total prosthesis. Examples of external limb prosthetic components include the following: Ankle, foot, hip, knee, and socket components; mechanical or powered hand, hook, wrist unit, elbow joint, and shoulder joint components; and cable and prosthesis suction valves. |
• Cardiovascular Surgical Instrument (FDA Code: DWS / 870.4500) Cardiovascular surgical instruments are surgical instruments that have special features for use in cardiovascular surgery. These devices include, e.g., forceps, retractors, and scissors. |
• Cardiovascular Surgical Saw Blade (FDA Code: DWH / 878.4820) Surgical instrument motors and accessories are AC-powered, battery-powered, or air-powered devices intended for use during surgical procedures to provide power to operate various accessories or attachments to cut hard tissue or bone and soft tissue. Accessories or attachments may include a bur, chisel (osteotome), dermabrasion brush, dermatome, drill bit, hammerhead, pin driver, and saw blade. |
• Cardiovascular Trocar (FDA Code: DRC / 870.1390) A trocar is a sharp-pointed instrument used with a cannula for piercing a vessel or chamber to facilitate insertion of the cannula. |
• Carotid Artery Clamp (FDA Code: HCE / 882.5175) A carotid artery clamp is a device that is surgically placed around a patient's carotid artery (the principal artery in the neck that supplies blood to the brain) and has a removable adjusting mechanism that protrudes through the skin of the patient's neck. The clamp is used to occlude the patient's carotid artery to treat intracranial aneurysms (balloonlike sacs formed on blood vessels) or other intracranial vascular malformations that are difficult to attach directly by reducing the blood pressure and blood flow to the aneurysm or malformation. |
• Catheter Connector (FDA Code: GCD / 878.4200) An introduction/drainage catheter is a device that is a flexible single or multilumen tube intended to be used to introduce nondrug fluids into body cavities other than blood vessels, drain fluids from body cavities, or evaluate certain physiologic conditions. Examples include irrigation and drainage catheters, pediatric catheters, peritoneal catheters (including dialysis), and other general surgical catheters. An introduction/drainage catheter accessory is intended to aid in the manipulation of or insertion of the device into the body. Examples of accessories include adaptors, connectors, and catheter needles. |
• Central Nervous System and Components (FDA Code: JXG / 882.5550) A central nervous system fluid shunt is a device or combination of devices used to divert fluid from the brain or other part of the central nervous system to an internal delivery site or an external receptacle for the purpose of relieving elevated intracranial pressure or fluid volume (e.g., due to hydrocephalus). Components of a central nervous system shunt include catheters, valved catheters, valves, connectors, and other accessory components intended to facilitate use of the shunt or evaluation of a patient with a shunt. |
• Clip Removal Instrument (FDA Code: HBQ / 882.4200) A clip removal instrument is a device used to remove surgical clips from the patient. |
• Clip Surgical Applier (FDA Code: GDO / 878.4800) |
• Continuous Flush Catheter (FDA Code: KRA / 870.1210) A continuous flush catheter is an attachment to a catheter-transducer system that permits continuous intravascular flushing at a slow infusion rate for the purpose of eliminating clotting, back-leakage, and waveform damping. |
• Continuous Intracranial Pressure Monitor (FDA Code: GWM / 882.1620) An intracranial pressure monitoring device is a device used for short-term monitoring and recording of intracranial pressures and pressure trends. The device includes the transducer, monitor, and interconnecting hardware. |
• Cranioplasty Material Forming Instrument (FDA Code: HBX / 882.4500) A cranioplasty material forming instrument is a roller used in the preparation and forming of cranioplasty (skull repair) materials. |
• Depth Gauge (FDA Code: HTJ / 888.4300) A depth gauge for clinical use is a measuring device intended for various medical purposes, such as to determine the proper length of screws for fastening the ends of a fractured bone. |
• Diagnostic Intravascular Catheter (FDA Code: DQO / 870.1200) An intravascular diagnostic catheter is a device used to record intracardiac pressures, to sample blood, and to introduce substances into the heart and vessels. Included in this generic device are right-heart catheters, left-heart catheters, and angiographic catheters, among others. |
• Disposable Vein Stripper (FDA Code: GAJ / 878.4800) |
• Drill Bit (FDA Code: HTW / 888.4540) |
• Ear Curette (FDA Code: JYG / 874.4420) |
• Ear Speculum (FDA Code: EPY / 878.1800) A speculum is a device intended to be inserted into a body cavity to aid observation. It is either nonilluminated or illuminated and may have various accessories. |
• Electrosurgical Cutting and Coagulation Device (FDA Code: GEI / 878.4400) An electrosurgical cutting and coagulation device and accessories is a device intended to remove tissue and control bleeding by use of high-frequency electrical current. |
• ENT Elevator (FDA Code: KAD / 874.4420) |
• ENT Forceps (FDA Code: KAE / 874.4420) |
• ENT Manual Surgical Instrument (FDA Code: LRC / 874.4420) |
• ENT Mirror (FDA Code: KAI / 874.4420) |
• ENT Retractor (FDA Code: KAL / 874.4420) |
• ENT Tracheal Hook (FDA Code: KCH / 874.4420) |
• Episiotomy Scissors (FDA Code: HDK / 884.4520) An obstetric-gynecologic general manual instrument is one of a group of devices used to perform simple obstetric and gynecologic manipulative functions. This generic type of device consists of the following: |
• Fiberoptic Retractor (FDA Code: FDG / 876.4530) A gastroenterology-urology fiberoptic retractor is a device that consists of a mechanical retractor with a fiberoptic light system that is used to illuminate deep surgical sites. |
• Fixation Cerclage (FDA Code: JDQ / 888.3010) A bone fixation cerclage is a device intended to be implanted that is made of alloys, such as cobalt-chromium-molybdenum, and that consists of a metallic ribbon or flat sheet or a wire. The device is wrapped around the shaft of a long bone, anchored to the bone with wire or screws, and used in the fixation of fractures. |
• Fixed Size Cervical Dilator (FDA Code: HDQ / 884.4530) An obstetric-gynecologic specialized manual instrument is one of a group of devices used during obstetric-gynecologic procedures to perform manipulative diagnostic and surgical functions (e.g., dilating, grasping, measuring, and scraping), where structural integrity is the chief criterion of device performance. This type of device consists of the following: |
• Flexible Depth Gauge (FDA Code: HTJ / 888.4300) |
• Gastro-Urology Trocar (FDA Code: FBQ / 876.5090) A suprapubic urological catheter and accessories is a flexible tubular device that is inserted through the abdominal wall into the urinary bladder with the aid of a trocar and cannula. The device is used to pass fluids to and from the urinary tract. This generic type of device includes the suprapubic catheter and tube, Malecot catheter, catheter punch instrument, suprapubic drainage tube, and the suprapubic cannula and trocar. |
• General & Plastic Surgery Forceps (FDA Code: GEN / 878.4800) |
• General & Plastic Surgery Surgical Clamp (FDA Code: GDJ / 878.4800) |
• General & Plastic Surgery Surgical Dissector (FDA Code: GDI / 878.4800) |
• General & Plastic Surgery Surgical Elevator (FDA Code: GEG / 878.4800) |
• General & Plastic Surgery Surgical Gouge (FDA Code: GDH / 878.4800) |
• General & Plastic Surgery Surgical Hook (FDA Code: GDG / 878.4800) |
• General & Plastic Surgery Surgical Rasp (FDA Code: GAC / 878.4800) |
• General & Plastic Surgery Surgical Spatula (FDA Code: GAF / 878.4800) |
• General Manual Obstetric/Gynecologic Instrument (FDA Code: KOH / 884.4520) |
• General Surgical Manual Instrument (FDA Code: MDM / 878.4800) |