In a major presentation at a leading pediatric surgery meeting, Myka Labs revealed key details of the design and functionality of a family of innovative surgical team awareness solutions it is working to bring to the field of pediatric surgery.

The Myka Labs awareness solutions are designed with a particular focus on rendezvous procedures, where multiple endoscopes and catheters are introduced into the patient’s body from different locations and, in order to achieve a therapeutic objective, must be steered toward a single point.

To facilitate safe, streamlined completion of rendezvous procedures in pediatric surgery, Myka Labs has developed a suite of tools leveraging ultraminiature sensor technology and high-performance computer vision algorithms. When using the system, care teams can view augmented reality and virtual reality depictions of the instruments to be rendezvoused.

The talk at the International Pediatric Endosurgery Group meeting (IPEG) focused on surgical team awareness in repair of birth defects involving the windpipe and esophagus. Around 25,000 newborns each year around the world are born with one of these birth defects.

Myka Labs is a venture-backed, clinical-stage company based in San Francisco, California.