When a Limb Is at Risk,
Every Decision Matters.
BlueOcean Global works with clinicians who treat the most challenging limb cases—building the frameworks, training, and tools they need to do it well.
A surgical framework that helps clinicians think through staged decision-making and coordinate care across complex limb preservation cases.
A fixation system built alongside the FASTR framework to flex with you as treatment evolves, within its cleared indications for use.
Limb Preservation & Salvage
Practical support for the multidisciplinary teams working to keep complex, at-risk limbs viable through every stage of treatment.
Limb preservation is rarely one procedure. It's a process — one that demands strategy, adaptability, and real collaboration along the way.
Patients rarely need
just one thing.
Managing skeletal stability, soft tissue, and biologic recovery often has to happen all at once. And the plan you start with often isn't the plan you finish with.
These cases ask you to think ahead, stay flexible, and adapt as conditions change. BlueOcean was built around that reality—not around an ideal scenario.
Built from
clinical reality.
BlueOcean grew out of conversations with clinicians who were doing everything right—and still watching patients lose limbs that might have been saved with better tools and a better plan.
We set out to build something more complete: training and technique alongside the technology, all grounded in the real challenges these surgeons face every day.
BlueOcean started with a simple, uncomfortable reality: too many limbs are lost because the toolbox runs out. In the sickest patients—diabetes, Charcot, infection, and "no-option" ischemia—surgeons are often forced to choose between compromised solutions and amputation.
FASTR was born from the belief that limb preservation shouldn't be a heroic outlier. It should be repeatable, scalable, and teachable—with a method that creates durable biology and a system that makes complex reconstruction feel controllable.
Over three hard years of engineering, iteration, and surgeon feedback, BlueOcean built the Excelsior System and paired it with FASTR—designed to help surgeons restore stability, create a pathway for healing, and give patients a real chance at keeping their limb.
Foundational Principles of Controlled Mechanical Stabilization
Gavriil Ilizarov demonstrated that living tissue responds predictably to controlled mechanical tension. Through gradual distraction, bone and surrounding soft tissues could regenerate—establishing the biologic foundation for modern limb reconstruction and deformity correction.
Evolution of Gradual Correction Techniques
Ilizarov principles spread worldwide, enabling complex deformity correction, limb lengthening, and reconstruction. Circular external fixation became a powerful tool for skeletal restoration, though systems were largely designed around bony correction alone.
Global Refinement of Bone Transport Methodologies
Building on Ilizarov's principles, surgeons in China advanced tibial transverse transport (TTT)—a bone-transport method improving distal limb perfusion in severe ischemic conditions, building a substantial clinical body of experience.
Integration into Modern Limb Preservation Workflows
The FASTR™ approach builds upon Ilizarov's foundational concepts within a modern procedural framework designed for both skeletal reconstruction and soft-tissue restoration—making advanced limb salvage more reproducible, teachable, and accessible.
A Framework for Limb
Preservation and Function.
FASTR is a clinical methodology that helps physicians work through complex limb cases with greater structure—coordinating stabilization principles, soft-tissue considerations, and staged procedural planning in a way that makes sense for how these cases actually unfold.
FASTR is an educational and procedural framework. It's designed to support clinical decision-making, not replace it. Treatment decisions always rest with the treating physician.
Built for the procedure you plan.
Ready for the one you get.
The Excelsior System was developed alongside the FASTR framework for cases that require multiplanar stabilization, bone transport, or complex limb preservation strategies—within its cleared indications for use.
It was built with a clear-eyed understanding of what limb preservation actually demands—and designed to give you options when the clinical picture shifts mid-treatment.
Download Instructions for Use (IFU)Precision engineering
built for real cases.
Every component of the Excelsior System is engineered around the realities of complex limb reconstruction — from soft tissue management to multiplanar bone transport.
Supporting an Emerging
Limb Preservation Category.
Patients rarely present with a single problem. Most arrive with a combination of challenges that have to be addressed together.
Coordinating care across orthopedic, podiatric, vascular, and wound care specialists isn't optional in these cases—it's the whole game. BlueOcean sits at the intersection of surgical education, procedural frameworks, and fixation—connecting what surgeons know with the tools and training to put it into practice.
Operational leadership &
deep clinical insight.
President & Chief Executive Officer
Scott Ludecker
Executive Leadership
With more than 25 years of experience in the global medical device industry, Scott is a proven industry leader with a demonstrated track record of successfully commercializing disruptive medical technology. Developing new markets and the teams to deliver above-industry growth rates is his passion. He has generated in excess of $1.2 billion in shareholder value through strategic exits. He is a graduate of Kenyon College.
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SVP, Human Resources & Operations
Stacy S. Miller
Executive Leadership
Spanning a career of more than 20 years, Stacy has served in senior human resources leadership positions developing and managing policies and programs for high-growth companies. Her experience includes global talent management, recruiting, corporate compliance, M&A, and operations. She is a graduate of Virginia Tech.
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Advanced Surgical
Training for Clinicians.
BlueOcean Global is committed to elevating surgical education in limb preservation — offering structured, faculty-led programs that translate FASTR principles into hands-on clinical skill.
This physician education program focuses on surgical principles and techniques used in bone transport–based reconstruction for complex limb preservation cases involving soft tissue deformity and defect of the lower extremity.
Through scientific lectures and hands-on cadaver training, participants will review structured approaches to staged reconstruction utilizing gradual osseous transport techniques within accepted reconstructive surgical practice.
Educational content emphasizes reconstructive applications including:
- Bone Transport
- Management of deformity associated with reconstruction
- Structural stabilization supporting soft tissue defect management
- Reconstruction in septic or compromised tissue environments
- Surgical workflows supporting limb preservation procedures
Surgeons involved in complex lower extremity reconstruction:
- Foot & Ankle Surgeons
- Orthopedic Surgeons
- Podiatric Surgeons
- Reconstructive and Limb Preservation Specialists
Recommended for surgeons with experience in reconstructive lower extremity procedures seeking advanced exposure to bone transport–based reconstruction.
Educational Objectives- Review principles underlying bone transport reconstruction
- Review staged reconstructive strategies for deformity and defect
- Understand structured workflows supporting limb preservation
- Participate in cadaver-based procedural education
- Develop reproducible approaches to complex reconstruction cases
Enrollment is intentionally limited to support direct faculty engagement and hands-on procedural discussion.
- Osteotomy planning and execution
- Creation of transport segments
- Principles of gradual osseous transport
- Alignment and deformity correction strategies
- Reconstruction workflows supporting limb preservation
- Operative pearls and troubleshooting
Guido LaPorta
DPM, MS, FACFAS
Director, Podiatry Residency, Guthrie Lourdes Hospital, Binghamton, NY
Director Emeritus, Dept. of Podiatry, Geisinger CMC
Michael Theodoulou
DPM, FACFAS
Chief, Foot & Ankle Surgery, Cambridge Health Alliance
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
This program provides physician education focused on surgical techniques and reconstructive principles associated with bone transport and limb preservation reconstruction. Clinical decision-making remains the responsibility of the treating physician.
Reserve Your Spot
Enrollment is intentionally limited to support direct faculty engagement. Submit your information below and our team will follow up with registration details for the June 13, 2026 course.
In the field.
In the literature.
Clinical research, peer-reviewed publications, and industry recognition advancing the science of limb preservation.
BlueOcean Global Announces FDA 510(k) Clearance of the Excelsior™ External Fixation System
January 26, 2026 Industry Recognition BoneZoneSix Orthopedic Startups to Track in 2026
February 4, 2026 Peer-Reviewed Wound Repair & Regeneration — WileyClinical outcomes in wound repair and regeneration using circular external fixation-assisted soft tissue management
2024 Peer-Reviewed ScienceDirectTibial cortex transverse transport corticotomy: A case series on a novel approach to limb salvage in the setting of peripheral vascular disease
2024 Clinical Education HMP Global Learning Network — PodiatryNovel Modified Adjunct Procedure for Patients with Diabetic Foot Infection and Chronic Limb Threatening Ischemia
2024 Video / Webinar HMP Global Learning Network — VascularRethinking the "No Option" Patient: Stabilization, Vascular Support, and the Future of Limb Preservation
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