Based in Adelaide, South Australia, Kaltec designs and manufactures surgical instruments and equipment such as shoulder traction systems, arthroscopy electrodes for knees, shoulder and ankle-wrist-elbow electrodes and tourniquet systems. HTS-ligament graft harvesting systems from Kaltec consist of 10mm tube saws positioned within stabilising guides. These ligament graft harvesting systems are specifically used to extract the centre third of the patella tendon in the ALC reconstruction procedure.
The medical equipment from Kaltec have small helical holes in the side walls of tubes to enable the patella tendon that has been captured to go through tube saw bore, while it is attached to the patella and tibia. These harvesting systems have demonstrated several advantages over tradtional wedge grafting techniques, which include the easiness of accurate fitting of bone plugs leading to better fixation.
Different sizes of cutters of these HTS- ligament graft harvesting systems such as 8mm, 9mm, 10mm and 11mm are available. A common handle and shaft system is available for all sizes of tube saws of these bone saw systems. For these different sizes of tube saws, there are also stabilising guides are also available.