Murfreesboro, Tenn.-based Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital added the StealthStation S8, a surgical navigation system for neurosurgery and spine procedures, Rutherford Source reports.
Here are three details:
1. The robotic system included an O-arm, which is designed to allow a single scan of a patient rather than multiple.
2. With high-definition touchscreen monitors and imaging capabilities, the system aims to use the patient's preoperative data during surgery.
3. "Intraoperative navigation in spine surgery allows for real-time image guidance which can lead to implant placement to be more accurate and rapid," said Abiola Atanda, MD, the hospital's first orthopedic surgeon to use the new robotic system.
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