Here are five observations:
1. Kelly Foote, MD, implanted the first Infinity DBS system. She is a neurosurgery professor and co-director of the University of Florida Center for Movement Disorders and Neurorestoration at the UF Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville.
2. The system is designed to treat Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor.
3. Equipped with DBS lead with segmented contacts, the Infinity DBS system allows personalized DBS therapy for individual patients.
4. This is the first DBS system operating on a wireless iOS software platform.
5. The system includes a clinician programmer with an iPad mini and an iPod touch patient controller with Bluetooth LE connectivity.
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