Gauss Surgical

Stryker (NYSE:SYK) announced today that it acquired Gauss Surgical and its Triton platform for an undisclosed amount.

Menlo Park, California-based Gauss Surgical designed the Triton artificial intelligence-enabled platform for the real-time monitoring of blood loss during surgery. The platform has demonstrated improvements in maternal and surgical care through earlier recognition of hemorrhage leading to earlier intervention, according to a news release.

Kalamazoo, Michigan-based Stryker cited studies that suggest that up to 5% of mothers experience a post-partum hemorrhage, which constitutes the leading cause of maternal death globally, and studies suggest that 70% of those are preventable through monitoring platforms like Triton.

“Gauss Surgical’s innovative Triton technology will help fill the void of quantifying blood loss to enable accuracy, early detection of hemorrhage and prevention of maternal morbidity,” Dylan Crotty, Presiden…