Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare is the first healthcare system in Connecticut to utilize Caesarea, Israel-based Mazor Robotics' Mazor X for spine surgeries.
Here are five highlights:
1. Surgeons at Hartford HealthCare's Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital, MidState Medical Center and Hartford Hospital used Mazor X this week.
2. Mazor X improves predictability and patient outcomes, allowing surgeons to perform more precise and efficient surgeries.
3. The technology features an integration of biomechanical logic and virtual surgical tools with computerized alignment calculations.
4. Hartford HealthCare surgeons are using Mazor X to perform spinal fusions on patients with spinal stenosis and spondylolisthesis.
5. The health system plans to use the technology for thoracic and cervical vertebrae as well as spinal deformity treatments in the future.