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Phoenix Children’s Hospital to deploy Medtronic neurosurgery robot

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Medtronic Stealth Autoguide robot-assisted surgery
Medtronic’s Stealth Autoguide system [Image courtesy of Medtronic]
Phoenix Children’s Hospital will be the first health system in the U.S. to deploy the newly FDA-cleared Medtronic Stealth Autoguide platform to perform robotic neurosurgery on pediatric patients.

The Barrow Neurological Institute (BNI) at Phoenix Children’s will use Stealth Autoguide with Medtronic’s StealthStation system. The hospital expects procedures to start later this month, according to a news release out yesterday.

Get the full story on our WTWH Media sister site The Robot Report.

 

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