10 Considerations for Surgeons Before Using Patient Specific Cutting Guides

  Letter to the Editor: Consider Patient Specific Cutting Guides Carefully (written by Walter P. Spires, Jr., CEO, ANOVA Orthopaedic Solutions for Beckers) One of our responsibilities as a committed orthopedic implant supply partner is to help keep you informed on developments deemed important to facilities, surgeons, and patients. The subject of patient specific cutting guides [...]

Stryker Is Supoenaed for OtisKnee Marketing Practices

from Stryker’s 10-Q – Sept 30, 2010, In the third quarter of 2010, the Company received separate subpoenas from the U.S. Department of Justice related to the sales, marketing, and regulatory matters related to the OtisKnee device.

Materialise Launches Interactive Pre-Op Planning Tool for CT/MRI Images

Materialise Launches SurgiCase(R) Orthopaedics: A Comprehensive, Custom Solution That Assures Best Practices For The Orthopaedic Surgeeon (Press Release)

FDA doesn’T Like the Way Biomet Is Marketing the Signature Personalized Patient Care Knee System

FDA Warns Biomet

Engineer Developing Robotic Device to Put Back the Pieces in a Complex Fractures

Engineer to create 3D puzzle to mend broken bones (Physorg) Engineer is developing a robotics device that can put the fractures back together as perfectly as possible, using the state of the art of 3D imaging, pattern recognition and robotics.

Computer-Assisted Robotic Total Knee Replacement Is Better Than Conventional Techniques

Better Alignment with Robotic Assistance? (Orthopedics This Week) Study Shows Significant Advantages of Computer-Assisted Robotic Total Knee Replacement (Newswise)

Orthopaedic Synergy to Acquire Praxim and Its Surgical Navigation Platform

 About Orthopaedic Synergy, Inc. Orthopaedic Synergy, Inc. functions as a holding company for OMNIlife Science, Inc. and Enztec, Ltd.  Together these companies represent a global reconstructive orthopaedic concern that is committed to the design, manufacture and distribution of high quality orthopaedic devices.  Our corporate strategic objectives include continued growth through strategic acquisition of companies with [...]

Ziehm Imaging and BrainLAB Improve Trauma and Spine Surgery With X-Ray Based Navigation

     Ziehm’s “NaviPort” interface now allows high-resolution 3D images from the Ziehm Vision2 FD Vario 3D mobile C-arm to be used for surgical navigation driven by BrainLAB technology. Yahoo Finance…  http://ow.ly/wJDo

Surgix, a Computer Assisted Surgery Startup, Raises $500,000

  Surgix is developing computer system for real-time image guided surgery, mainly for orthopedic trauma. Surgix is a Maaylan Ventures Ltd. portfolio company. Maayan Ventures, which owns 32% of Surgix, invested $118,000. Surgix is developing a computer assisted system for real-time image guided surgery, mainly for orthopedic trauma. Its CEO is Oren Drori. The system [...]

May 18, 2012

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