Kahook Dual Blade®
INTENDED USE: The Kahook Dual Blade® (KDB) is a disposable ophthalmic knife, a manual surgical instrument used in ophthalmic surgical procedures to manually cut trabecular meshwork (TM) in pediatric and adult patients. The KDB is sterile and is intended for single patient, single use.
PATIENT POPULATION: Adult and Pediatric
PROJECT NAME: KDB
DEVELOPMENT TEAM: Khalid Mansour, Suhail Abdullah, Joey Tran, Patrick Chen
PRODUCT SUPPORT:
EXECUTIVE TEAM: Bilal Khan, Khalid Mansour, Suhail Abdullah
COMMERCIAL TEAM: Yasir Iqbal
QUALITY AND REGULATORY TEAM: Cristina Avalos
SUSTAINING AND PRODUCTION TEAM: Did not exist at the time of release
CLINICAL AFFAIRS TEAM: Did not exist at the time of release
LEGAL TEAM: Did not exist at the time of release
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT DURATION: 13 MONTHS (08/2014 – 08/2015)
REGULATORY CLEARANCE RECEIVED: US: Class 1, no 510(k) required.
DID YOU KNOW:
- KDB was released when the company only had ~25 employees
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