EXCEL-DIAMOND Subscription Service
KNIFE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE
With a focus on reducing both your carbon footprint and medical waste, our EXCEL-DIAMOND Knife Subscription Service aims to replace your single use cataract knives with a sustainable alternative whilst elevating your surgical precision with knives crafted in The Netherlands – renowned for their superior sharpness and longevitity.
Unlike the historical method of buying diamond knives outright and having to allocate large sums of CAPEX, we can provide you with both Sideport and Main Incision Diamond Knives for a Simple Monthly Subscription Fee per Knife, which replaces your existing single use knife OPEX costs – typically resulting in either a cost neutral or cost positive outcome.
A single surgeon performing 700 Cataract Surgeries per year creates >200Kgs of Carbon equivalent from their single use knives along¹
OUR COMPREHENSIVE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE INCLUDES:
1 FLAT FEE PER KNIFE / PER MONTH
24-48hr Replacement Service for Damaged knives or blades that require re-sharpening
CSSD Training and Support to ensure knives are well maintained and cared for
Ongoing Loyalty Discounts for Subscription Renewals & Bonuses for Good Maintenance Practices
Choose from a menu of multiple Blade Sizes and Designs to suit your surgeons needs
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Cataract Surgery Single Use Knife Carbon Footprint Calculator
Enter your facilities unique numbers into the calculator to see how much carbon waste you could potentially reduce by switching away from Single Use Knives for Cataract Surgery and subscribing to the EXCEL-DIAMOND Service.
* According to the Sustainability Index for Disposables in Cataract Surgery (An ESCRS Initiative (https://www.escrs.org/sidics) each slit knife has a carbon footprint of 112.7g CO2 and each sideport knife has a footprint of 185.6g CO2. For the purpose of this calculator, we have averaged both knives at 149.15g CO2 footprint per single use knife.