Rethink Your Reload Selection
Choosing ECHELON™ Gripping Surface Technology Reloads based on tissue thickness range—instead of color—gives you the flexibility to better match the unique tissue of each patient.
Which Reload
Is Right for Your Procedure?
Click on the box below and move it up and down to select different tissue thicknesses and explore reload choices. The top of each reload's range delivers a drier staple line and the bottom more perfusion.
4.0
3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5
1.0
The Challenges of Variable Tissue
Tissue thickness varies within patients or across patients, depending on factors like age, BMI, and gender.4
Exceptional Staple
Line Integrity
Across the Broadest Range of Tissue Thicknesses.5
Overlapping tissue thickness ranges provide more confidence that the reload you select will handle the tissue thickness.
Taking Engineering Advancements Into Your OR
The color of our reloads hasn’t changed, but thanks to continuous design and innovation improvements, the performance has. Equip yourself for tissue variability.
INNOVATION 01
Gripping Surface Technology
Proprietary pocket extensions grip and stabilize tissue during firing.6
INNOVATION 02
Two-Stage Compression
Designed to reduce tissue thickness and more evenly distribute compression.
INNOVATION 03
More Uniform Compression
32% more uniform staple line compression with blue or green GST Reloads compared to purple Tri-Staple™ Reloads.7
INNOVATION 04
Uniform Staple Height
For all three rows to meet the needs of tissue and provide consistent compression.
Operate With a Tool Equipped for Variability.
The ECHELON™+ Stapler with GST Reloads features more design innovation to advance staple line security—even in challenging tissue.

Are You Ready to Rethink Your Reload Selection?
See why ECHELON™ is a better way to staple.
Resources
- ECHELON™+ Stapler with GST Reloads: Rethinking Reload Selection Download PDF
- White Paper: How Advances in Surgical Stapling Impact Endocutter Reload Selection Download PDF
- ECHELON™ Reload and Buttress Selection Guide Download PDF
- ECHELON™+ Stapler with GST Reloads Brochure Download PDF
- ECHELON™ Powered Staplers Evidence Compendium Download PDF
- Instructions for Use