Stryker’s next-gen Mako total robotic knee surgery system and more AI integration for Zimmer Biomet’s ZBEdge surgical platform topped the news at this year’s AAOS 2023. The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2023 annual meeting drew top medical and medtech talent to Las Vegas from March 7–11. Here is a roundup of major news coming […]
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Smith+Nephew data backs its patient-specific knee surgery tools
Smith+Nephew (LSE:SN, NYSE:SNN) has published a systemic literature review that backs its Visionaire patient-specific instrumentation for knee surgeries. The research was published online by the Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery. It included a meta-analysis of 25 relevant studies that compared Visionaire-enabled total knee arthroplasty (TKA) with conventional instrumentation-enabled TKA. The analysis demonstrated improvements in […]
AI is part of Augmedics’ Xvision Spine System expansion
Augmedics announced today that it launched new, FDA-cleared features and indications for its Xvision Spine System. Updates to Xvision come just weeks after the company hit its 3,000-patient milestone for the system. It marks Xvision’s largest expansion since its commercial launch. Chicago-based Augmedics said in a news release that the launch creates a technical foundation […]
Zimmer Biomet unveils enhancements to ZBEdge platform
Zimmer Biomet (NYSE:ZBH) plans to unveil more AI integration and other enhancements to its ZBEdge Dynamic Intelligence platform for hip and knee surgeries. The improvements include greater integration of ZB’s WalkAI — artificial intelligence that can predict which patients will have lower gait speed 90 days after hip or knee surgery. Warsaw, Indiana–based Zimmer Biomet […]
