spinal surgery Articles
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Easing Chronic Pain Remotely With Digital Health - Case Study
Living with Chronic Pain Rich is a 20-year veteran consultant at a Big Four accounting firm, who spends long hours sitting at his desk on his computer. The past 2 years, his back pain has become unbearable. He tried epidurals, surgery, physical therapy, and opioids and was waking up every 3 hours to take a pill that barely helped. He had fractures on his spine’s base. After being bed-ridden ...
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World’s First aprevo Personalized Spine Surgery Performed Using the Only Available Spine Technology with FDA Breakthrough Designation
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Carlsmed, Inc. is announcing today that the firstaprevopatient specific spinal surgery has been successfully performed. Christopher Ames, M.D., director of spinal tumor and spinal deformity surgery at UC San Francisco Medical Center, assisted by Patrick Maloney, M.D., performed this landmark surgical procedure. “Carlsmed’s aprevofamily of devices represent ...
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Enhanced precision & Reduced radiation
A surgical C-arm and an Optical Navigation system works together in synergy to facilitate a Spinal surgery platform. Continuous guidance of surgical tools relative to any pre and intra-operatively acquired 2D and 3D datasets assures reduced operative time, less radiation, and enhanced precision. Why should you consider easyNav for C-arm integration? Calibration and Navigation of other ...
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Carlsmed Raises $30M in Series B Funding to Scale Personalized Spine Surgery
CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Carlsmed announced today that it closed an oversubscribed $30M Series B funding round, led by B Capital Group, a global, multi-stage investment firm. Existing investors, U.S. Venture Partners, The Vertical Group, Cove Fund and Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health, also participated in the round. The company plans to use the Series B funds to ramp commercialization of ...
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Best Material To Practice Your Suturing Skills
You've probably heard amazing stories of surgeons performing successful, yet extremely delicate and risky procedures such as open-heart surgery, separation of conjoined twins, craniotomy, thoracic aortic dissection repair, oesophagectom, spinal osteomyelitis surgery, and many more. As a medical student, you wonder how a surgeon can do such an incredible job. Well, the answer lies in lots of ...
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SeeFactor CT3 for Cervical Spine Imaging - Sylvan palmer, MD Mission Hospital – Orange County, CA - Case Study
Spine (Below) Currently, Physicians see this: ...
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Results of Using a New Technology to Improve the Identification and Preservation of Nerve Tissue during Robotic-Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy
Introduction & Objectives Efforts to improve continence after robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALRP) have focused on preserving periurethral and bladder neck tissue and techniques involving posterior reconstructions and anterior suspensions. Many patients, however, still have varying degrees of urinary incontinence. Literature has shown that nerves innervating the levator ...
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CMS Grants Transitional Pass-Through (TPT) Payment for Carlsmed`s aprevo® Personalized Interbody Devices
CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Carlsmed announced today that the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has granted aprevo® a Transitional Pass-Through (TPT) payment as part of the quarterly update of the 2021 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System. The aprevo® Personalized Interbody Devices were the only devices to receive TPT status in this update. The ...
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Advantages of using Spine 3D(CT-based) Navigation in complex Spine Surgeries
To confidently perform a spinal fusion and screw fixation with excellence surgical navigation is consistently used as a powerful tool. Surgical Navigation provides real-time guidance and precise measurements for accurately placing the pedicle screws to help stabilize the spine. A preoperative CT scan gives a detailed visualization of the structure decreasing the potential for implant-related ...
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ReActiv8-B Trial 2-Year Data Publication in Neuromodulation
Abstract Background Impaired neuromuscular control and degeneration of the multifidus muscle have been linked to the development of refractory chronic low back pain (CLBP). An implantable restorative-neurostimulator system can override the underlying multifidus inhibition by eliciting episodic, isolated contractions. The ReActiv8-B randomized, active-sham-controlled trial provided ...
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MedTech Round Table: The ROI of Surgical Digital Transformation
Caresyntax hosted a roundtable discussion on how digital transformation—specifically the collection of data in the surgical suite—can drive both quality and return on investment (ROI). The participants included a panel of esteemed healthcare professionals in surgery, nursing, investing, sales, healthcare technology, and academics. The following is a summary of the new pathways and ...
By Caresyntax
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Spine-Intra-Abdominal Pressure (SIAP) - Case Study
The SIAP study investigates the effect of using Ergotrics' Inflatable Prone Support (IPS) on intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) during spine surgery. Study background The objective of this study is to demonstrate the ability of the inflatable Prone Supports (IPS) to lower the IAP of patients in the prone position. Whenever the patients’ position is changed to prone, the IAP is increased due to ...
By Ergotrics NV
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