Let There Be Light: Lumohs Founder Donates Scalpels to Floating Doctors

Developed by a dermatologist, the Lumohs is a patented reusable scalpel that enables shadowless illumination millimeters from surgical site.

Floating Doctors will be using the Lumohs scalpel when treating underserved patients in areas without electricity or water. 

The Floating Doctors' volunteer medical teams deploy by boat, packhorse, or on foot to remote underserved areas. The Lumohs is a patented reusable scalpel that enables shadowless illumination millimeters from surgical site.

"Lumohs enables powerful unobstructed illumination on the surgical site, while enabling simultaneous cutting. The Floating doctors team using Lumohs scalpel will now have a tool that frees up another set of healthcare hands from having to hold a flashlight to assisting the surgeon in other important ways,” says Dr. Steven Hacker, Founder of Nano Surgical, LLC and inventor of Lumohs.

Dr. Hacker will provide multiple Lumohs handles and battery cartridges to Floating Doctors.

In well-resourced settings, adequate procedure light is usually from gigantic overhead fixtures that are expensive and space consuming. When you're doing procedures after dark in regions with no electricity or running water, those kinds of solutions aren't even a remote possibility," adds Dr. Ben LaBrot, Floating Doctors Founder.

"I've done a lot of work in very dark village homes with headlamps and kerosene lanterns, and the ability (and challenge) to have adequate light on the procedure site is critical. Lumohs is exactly the kind of cost-effective solution our team leverages to travel lightly and get the job done safely in the remote rural settings in which we provide care. "