Here are five things to know from this visit:
1. This is the first time Stryker’s Mobile Instrument Laboratory was made available to students since it’s creation a year ago.
2. According to Stryker spokeswoman Jo Hawks, the idea behind the visit was to spark the students’ curiosity about science and skilled labor, as well as showing the application of math and science in the real world.
3. The lab is a mobile operating room and consists of eight integrated lab stations that allow visitors to experience Stryker’s line of products and cross-divisional technologies.
4. Some of the products Stryker designs, manufactures and markets are reconstructive, surgical, neurotechnology and spine products, as well as patient-care products such as hospital beds and transport gurneys.
5. They also produce high-tech surgical devices and orthopedic implants, such as replacement hips and joints.
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