from HealthCareBrew
Orthopedic surgeon Richard Bransford used the technology to operate on a patient with a slipped disc.
Surgeons in the US may soon be able to utilize Paradigm, a new navigation platform, for complicated spinal operations.
Proprio, a Seattle-based technology company, announced on October 16 that orthopedic surgeon Richard Bransford successfully used Paradigm for the first time in a spinal surgery, which was performed at the University of Washington Medicine Harborview Medical Center. The surgery marks the next step in bringing the device to market and gathering data for future uses of the technology.
“It’s an exciting time for us as a company to have those seven years now leading up to the first in-human use of the system,” Samuel Browd, Proprio’s co-founder and chief medical officer, told Healthcare Brew.
Bransford used the Paradigm technology to operate on a patient with a high-grade spondylolisthesis, or a slipped disc, and a foraminal stenosis, in which the space between the vertebrae begin to narrow.
The FDA-cleared device uses artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality, and light field to help surgeons digitally map and visualize the sur...
