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O-arm® Imaging System in the news - "The Horizons of Intraoperative Imaging"

08.27.2007
David Bernard, Senior Associate Editor
Outpatient Surgery Magazine

 

Senior Associate Editor, David Bernard of Outpatient Surgery Magazine, shows how state-of-the-art imaging (the O-arm® System) technology, in combination with navigation, positively impacts Delray Medical Center.

 "'The idea [of intraoperative imaging] doesn’t necessarily start with efficiency, it starts with safety,” says neurosurgeon Evan Packer, MD, of the Delray Medical Center in Delray Beach, Fla. “You can almost be perfect every time at the outset.'

Think of the O-arm as a C-arm with 360-degree X-ray vision that captures a series of exposures around the patient to deliver three-dimensional, CAT-style images for diagnosis, navigation and confirmation — all without a trip to the radiology department. The O-arm’s $750,000 price tag is steep, but the advantages that fluoroscopic imaging devices bring to interventional procedures — accuracy, efficiency, speed, better outcomes — have earned them a regular place at the OR table while also influencing the basics of surgery.

A surgical marketing executive says intraoperative imaging is fueling the shift from inpatient facilities to surgery centers and even to office-based procedures. He considers pain management to be the highest-growth segment of the imaging business. Experts expect the minimally invasive orthopedic, spine, neurosurgery, ENT, urology and pain procedures both spurred and guided by fluoroscopic imaging to remain in high demand. Here, some imaging observers discuss the latest advances in fluoroscopic intraoperative imaging and offer their views on its future."

Courtesy of Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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