SPECIAL EDITION: SURGICAL ROBOTS EXCELSIUSGPS® (MID-COURSE NOTES FROM USERS) (Orthopedics This Week)
Globus Medical, Inc.’s ExcelsiusGPS® and Medtronic’s Mazor X with StealthStation are the two most commonly purchased robotic assist platforms for spine and neurosurgeons in the United States.
Virtually every major spinal implant company (Zimmer Biomet, NuVasive, Inc., Stryker Corporation, JNJ Synthes and others) have or will soon announce their own spine surgery robot and, no doubt, hustle to catch up to the market leaders.
Neither Globus nor Medtronic releases robot unit sales numbers but two of Wall Street’s top medical device research departments (Wells Fargo Securities and Needham and Co.) estimate that between 140-200 Mazor X and ExcelsiusGPS systems have been sold so far in the United States.
The total available market is probably 2,000 units spread among 1,250 U.S. hospitals and clinics, so robotics have only penetrated about 8% of the market.
Last January 2018, we checked in with New York University Langone Orthopedic Hospital’s Chief of Spine Service for Education and Director of the Spine Fellowship Jeffrey Goldstein, M.D. about his new robotic system which, as it turned o...
