Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center installed Medtronic's Mazor X System for complex spinal procedures, reports HIT Infrastructure.
Three things to know:
1. Mazor X is designed for precise positioning of surgical instruments or spinal implants during spine and brain surgery.
2. The device is a multifunctional robotic arm that allows physicians to take a preoperative CT scan of the patient's spine and maps the patient's anatomy, showing the surgeons where to insert screws.
3. Mazor X guides the surgical arm into position and translates the surgical plan to trajectory guidance during surgery.