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Wednesday, January 14th, 2015

 

Central Ohio Surgical Team Performs First Spinal Fusion With SpineMask to Improve Screw Placement

Mount Carmel Health System’s Bradford Mullin, MD, FAANS, FACS and a surgical team at Mount Carmel East just recently completed the first spinal fusion procedure using SpineMask, which is a tool that maps the spine for safer and more accurate screw placement.  The device is made up of a thin sheet of plastic that is surrounded with circuits, and the device creates a map of a patient’s spinal area using LED lights to be used for surgical navigation.  The lights indicate to the surgeon where their surgical instruments are positioned and whereRead More