congresses and meetings

K2M is the largest privately owned company of its type in the world, focusing as it does on addressing complex spinal pathologies with innovative devices and solutions. It’s showing its wares at this year’s NASS meeting this week.

Precision Spine acquired Spinal USA earlier this year and is keen to make sure it builds on the event with its first big showing at the North American Spine Society meeting this week in Dallas, Texas.

The UK’s Aesthetic Plastic surgeons meet next week in an annual event that might just attract more attention than usual in the wake of the PIP scandal which has cast something of a cloud over the specialty throughout 2012.

Cook Medical’s new Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery clinical division is the company’s tenth business unit and is showing its new ideas to the specialty at this week’s AAO-HNS conference in Washington, D.C.

OK it’s all work supported by the main industry players, but a registry’s a registry and in Germany it appears that the body of evidence is growing that TAVI is a technique that is gaining ground for all the right reasons and could even usurp conventional surgery in years to come.

It’s all kicking off at ESC as two journalists get the heave-ho for what looks like an accidental embargo break. Blimey.

Following promising early clinical data CardioFocus has announced that its technology will be highlighted in two presentations during the forthcoming European Society of Cardiology Congress in Munich.

The 15th Medtech Investing Europe Conference takes place in September and as a Medlatest visitor you’re entitled to a helpful 40% discount. Find out more about the event in the full article.

In the fight against AIDS, male circumcision is a key contributory factor in preventing female-male transmission. A simple device could offer the best chance of attaining targeted circumcision rates in Africa, mostly because it is simple and non surgical.

A one day conference entitled Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) is being held this Friday in Cardiff, Wales.

Elsevier Business Intelligence (EBI), publisher of “The Gray Sheet”, is holding its IN³ Medical Device 360° at the Hyatt Regency Boston, June 27-29 2012.

Combining the various spinal societies into one big event every four years has the potential to be a disaster, but Spineweek has worked well in the past and seems to be a popular solution to the demands of time and money placed on potential delegates and industry alike.

We’re keen to keep you informed of future events in your chosen, or related specialty. To that end we’ve trawled the heart congresses taking place in the next twelve months and provided this helpful list with links.

AANA is probably the world’s best known annual forum for all things arthroscopy. It’s being held right now in Orlando and the program looks like the usual excellent selection of guest speakers and papers.

It’s EFORT time again in just over a week, so Europe’s Orthopaedic and Trauma will be pitching up to show off their new goodies.

St.Jude clearly wants to remind its audience that it’s a company at the forefront of cardiac electrophysiology, and has timed a flurry of good news press releases to coincide with Heart Rhythm 2012.