Operion is Curavation's operating-room fluid-management line — bringing closed, mobile fluid handling to Australian theatres, with local regulatory ownership and clinical partnership.
In many Australian operating rooms, fluid is still managed with basic suction canisters, manual mopping of floor spills, and gravity-fed irrigation — a workflow that slows turnover, adds physical load, and raises exposure risk for perioperative staff.
Spilled irrigation and body fluid on the theatre floor slows case turnover and means manual mopping — a slip and biohazard-exposure risk.
Procedures such as TURP, knee arthroscopy and hysteroscopy use large volumes of irrigation fluid, with frequent manual bag changes during surgery.
Open canisters are carried and emptied by hand — a splash and sharps-exposure risk — and generate large volumes of regulated medical waste.
Category figures describe surgical fluid-waste management generally. Sources: Baker et al., GREEN study, Annals of Medicine & Surgery, 2023 (Europe); Horn et al., ACORN, 2015 (Australia). These studies evaluate the closed-system category and Stryker's Neptune device and are cited here to describe the clinical problem — they are not claims about Operion products.
Operion is entering the Australian market through staged regulatory pathways, starting with simple, low-capital devices and building toward a closed collection system. Product details are shared with healthcare professionals and pilot sites.
Two simple, low-capital devices addressing floor spills and irrigation handling — designed to be adopted without a full capital-procurement cycle.
A mobile, closed collection approach with a companion sluice-room station — designed to fit theatres that fixed systems cannot.
Draws up spilled irrigation and body fluid from the theatre floor, reducing manual mopping and helping keep turnover moving. Simple mechanical device — no electronics, no patient contact.
Provides steady pressure to irrigation bags, reducing frequent manual bag changes during high-irrigation cases and supporting a consistent irrigation flow.
A mobile unit for closed collection and temporary containment of surgical fluids, connected to hospital central vacuum. Passive collection vessel with a visual volume reference — not a measuring or clinical-decision device.
A sluice-room station used after procedures to empty collected fluids, rinse containers and support waste handling — addressing the disposal step that fixed docking systems leave to staff.
Capital and consumables designed to sit materially below incumbent closed systems — a procurement and finance conversation, not only a clinical one.
Designed to deploy in older theatres, day-surgery rooms and regional facilities that cannot accommodate fixed docking infrastructure.
The Hub addresses the cleaning and disposal stage that docking-based systems leave to staff — the genuinely differentiated part of the workflow.
Operational benefits described above will be substantiated by Operion's own pilot-site evidence. Category evidence for closed vs. canister-based systems (GREEN, ACORN) relates to the device category and Stryker's Neptune, not to Operion products.
We work with perioperative teams to co-design pilot evaluations.
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