Ra Medical Systems announces launch of LockeT device

Ra Medical Systems announced that its subsidiary, Catheter Precision has launched its LockeT product into the marketplace, with initial shipments to its distributors to begin immediately. LockeT can be used in conjunction with the closure of a percutaneous wound site, where a catheter has been placed through the skin into a blood vessel and then removed at the end of a procedure. The physician will suture the site and the vessel, and LockeT is used to hold the sutures in place. Locket can either complement or be used as an alternative to closure devices. Those devices include Perclose, sold by Abbott, Vascade, sold by Cardiva, a unit of Haemonetics, and Angioseal, sold by Terumo.