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The TITAN CSR® retractor, developed by ASR Systems, has been named the top-performing self-retaining surgical retractor in a newly published U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) study evaluating surgical tools for forward-deployed trauma care. Conducted by the U.S. Air Force 59th Medical Wing and Brooke Army Medical Center, the independent research compared the TITAN CSR® retractor to the Bookwalter® retractor, Alexis™ retractor, and Balfour retractor. Results showed that the TITAN CSR® retractor delivered the greatest surgical exposure, earned the highest usability ratings from military surgeons, and proved to be the most effective retractor for combat surgery, damage control surgery, and austere medical environments. Already trusted in Level 1 trauma centers across the U.S. and Canada, the TITAN CSR® retractor now has strong, independent military validation for its performance in deployed surgical settings.

The TITAN CSR® surgical retractor was honored with the prestigious Best Equipment Award at the 2024 American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) Annual Meeting and Clinical Congress of Acute Care Surgery!

A peer-reviewed case series from University Hospital, a Level 1 Center in San Antonio, Texas, describes their 1-year experience using the TITAN CSR® retractor providing rapid and effective abdominal exposure without a table attachment.

The TITAN CSR® surgical retractor was honored with the prestigious Best Instrument Award at the 2023 American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) Annual Meeting and Clinical Congress of Acute Care Surgery!

The team at LINK partnered with Advanced Surgical Retractor Systems Inc. (ASR Systems), a medical device manufacturer led by a military trauma surgeon and a veteran medical device entrepreneur, to design a novel surgical retractor to be used in invasive abdominal surgeries, called laparotomies.

San Antonio’s startup scene is maturing. Local founders are raising more money than ever before, while venture capitalists are paying more attention to our ecosystem, looking for lucrative companies to invest in.

Our startup ecosystem reflects innovation across many different fields. You’ll find on the 2022 list more than the expected biomedical, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and cybersecurity companies from years past.

We are excited to announce that our Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Ramon Cestero, has been selected as one of the exclusive Texas 100 by the Texas Business Journals. The list highlights influential Texans that will play crucial roles in shaping the Texas economy in the coming year.

A San Antonio trauma surgeon who has saved lives on battlefields abroad and in San Antonio operating rooms has created a new and improved surgical tool.

A San Antonio Navy veteran’s medical invention may soon be available for wider use by deployed military surgical teams in the field.

Cestero is a trauma surgeon and professor of trauma surgery at UT Health San Antonio. The device he invented is a new kind of retractor, a tool doctors use during surgery to prop open a patient’s abdomen in order to repair internal injuries and stop bleeding that threatens the patient’s life.

As a veteran Navy trauma surgeon, Dr. Ramon Cestero has put a lot of people back together. He’s done multiple tours, working in combat zones in tough conditions, stopping bleeding in horribly injured soldiers and Marines, propping their abdomens open with a portable retractor, rapidly controlling life-threatening injuries, stabilizing them enough to get them to the next level of care.

Dr. Cestero discusses how he used his military experiences to devise a new self-retaining surgical retractor that can be used downrange and in stateside operating rooms. Designed for both civilian and military applications, the TITAN CSR™ delivers the speed of traditional self-retaining retractors and equivalent exposure of table-mounted systems, without a post or table attachment.