THE ELEVEN BEST NEW SPINE TECHNOLOGIES FOR 2014 (Orthopedics This Week) ...you can read the selection process and judges at end of article.
Here are the 11 best new spine technologies for 2014 arranged in alphabetical order by category:
Category: Biomaterials and Biologics
One Winning Technology
MAGNIFUSE II
Company: Medtronic Spinal
Inventors: G. Wei, K. Behnam, N Forsyth, J. Winterbottom, J. Beisser, T. Boyce, M. Attawia, C. Richards, L. Shimp, S. Berven, R. Betz, M. O’Brien, A. Shelokov, R. Cohen, A. Vaccaro, S. Boden, H. Sandhu, D. Sybert, M. Gupta
Engineering Team: Kerem Kalpakci, Kelly Schlachter, Suneeth Mohan, Guobao Wei, Susan Drapeau, Dan Shimko, Bill McKay
MAGNIFUSE II DBM bone graft is assembled at the time of use by the clinician. The clinician is able to combine the provided demineralized allograft bone with recovered autograft, and then pack the combination of tissues into a unique, self-contained, resorbable mesh bag using the provided disposable funnel and plunger. The surgeon can then place the fully contained construct into bone voids. The ability to add autograft into the resorbable mesh is a significant advantage of the MAGIFUSE ...
