SpineGuard, the company with the stated mission of making spinal surgery safer, has announced that data accepted by Spine and published ahead-of-print online demonstrates that the Company’s PediGuard® device reduces spine surgeons’ radiation exposure from fluoroscopy by 30% while maintaining a 97.5% accurate placement of pedicle screws during lumbar spine fusion.
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DePuy Launches VIPER® Cortical Fix Fenestrated Screw in Europe
DePuy’s new VIPER Cortical Fix Fenestrated Screw features a cortical thread designed to increase resistance to pull-out forces by doubling the number of screw-to-bone contact points.