Arthrex unveils new surgery video system at San Francisco trade show (Naples News)
Perhaps in the not-too-distant future, orthopedic surgeons will allow patients to see their knee replacement or shoulder repair surgery after the fact.
Family members could potentially watch live streaming video of the minimally invasive surgery from an iPad in a waiting room.
"They could literally watch the surgery," said Dr. James Guerra, a Naples orthopedic surgeon who is medical director of Arthrex Inc., a medical device manufacturing company headquartered in Naples. "It's really dynamic technology."
At the annual conference of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons this week in San Francisco, Arthrex unveiled a compact imaging system to make live-video streaming possible.
The conference is the largest orthopedictrade showand education program in the industry, attended by 14,000 orthopedic surgeons from around the world.
Bruce Kennedy, chief technology officer at Arthrex California Technology in Santa Barbara, Calif., said Arthrex began working on the state-of-the art video system a year ago. The system is called Synergy HD3.
"It's basically the fusion of a lot of technologies in one and it...
