POSTHORAX, INC.
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA

Our goal is to help revolutionize post-operative care in cardiac surgery and gain recognition for our novelty sternum stabilizer that prevents the most feared complications after open heart surgery - deep sternal wound infections and pneumonia. Since we treat all patients with the Posthorax sternum vest it is a win for all - we highly recommend Posthorax to every heart center. Consequent application of the Posthorax vest reduced deep sternal wound complications by 63% Bio-mechanical analysis: The findings of the study proved a positive biomechanical effect of the Posthorax support vest in the anteroposterior movement which predicates its favorable clinical effect in avoiding sternum related complications. We have used the vest for more than 6 months in more than 500 patients. We are very pleased with the results. Our deep sternal infection rate dropped by more than 70%. Presenting the importance of stabilizing the sternum after open heart procedures. This study confirms that stabilizing the thorax in the dorsoventral axis prevents sternum dehiscence and infections. "The more we used the Posthorax support vest, the more reductions in sternal complications we observed" "Super design, clinical efficiency, a product like that stops sternal infections and much prolonged hospitalization for our patients" Correct application and stringent use of the Posthorax® vest as a single patient product provides highly significant results preventing dWHC whereas sWHC showed no significant improvement Hence post operative anterior posterior stabilization in the dorsal ventral axis as demonstrated by the Posthorax® vest seems to be the single most important factor preventing deep sternal wound infections and mediastinitis. DGTHG 2011