BRIGIT™ Bone Resection Instrument Guide*
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CAS/BRIGIT
Presented By: Sheryl Conley, Group President, Americas
and Global Marketing and Chief Marketing Officer
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The BRIGIT Bone Resection Instrument Guide, the latest technology in TKA surgery, will be available for demos in the Zimmer Computer Assisted Solutions (CAS) Lab at AAOS 2007.
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The BRIGIT System is a computer-assisted, 6 degrees-of-freedom positioning arm that assists the surgeon through automatic positioning and rigidly holding a multi-slot cut guide in place (without the need for pins). Importantly, the surgeon retains complete control in final positioning and placement.
The BRIGIT System does not require traditional TKA instruments which are associated with placement and removal of pins and cut guides.
Entirely developed by Zimmer for Zimmer implants, the BRIGIT software interface and touch screen control panel offer an easy to use solution for Total Knee Arthroplasty.
Please stop by the Zimmer CAS Lab for a closer look at the BRIGIT System.
*Product in development - not currently available.
Zimmer Computer Assisted Solutions has asked:
- Would faster OR turnover impact your practice?
- Does your hospital struggle with sterilization, packaging, handling, and inventory holding costs?
- Could you use more space in your hospital and OR?
- Does technology play a role in your practice promotion?
- Would increased accuracy, repeatability, reproducibility impact your practice?
- Are your patients becoming more technologically knowledgeable?
- What would the addition of one TKA surgery per week do for your OR profitability?
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Zimmer Computer Assisted Solutions
Zimmer® ICE Cube™ Instruments
WELCOME TO THE NEW ICE AGE
Finally something to make CAS cool - Zimmer Computer Assisted Solutions introduces the coolest innovation to come along for navigated total knee arthroplasty - ICE Cube Instruments. These instruments have been designed with ease-of-use and high precision in mind. Since they are sterile packaged and single use, you’re getting a new instrument for every surgery - Intuitive, Consistent, Exact.
Benefits:
- Reduces OR instrument burden
- Setup before procedure
- Workflow efficiency during procedure
- Cleaning / maintenance after procedure
- Extramedullary fixation – no intramedullary canal violation
- Allows independent adjustment of cutting planes
- Works with optical and electromagnetic systems
- Supports MIS and traditional approaches
- Polymer material eliminates “toggle” found in traditional instruments
- Modestly priced
Specifications:
- Individually, sterile packaged
- Tibia and Femur specific designs
Digital Templating
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CONFIDENCE IS KNOWING HOW TO NAVIGATE THE DIGITAL WORLD More hospitals private practices and clinics are converting to digital x-ray systems and all-digital data management. Zimmer is well prepared. Today, we provide digital templates for most of our products. More are coming. We also have partnered with Zimmer certified software providers to make these templates available to orthopaedists. Better still, we offer support to promote understanding of this technology—placing Confidence in your hands®. |
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Zimmer provides:
- Digital templates of Zimmer products to orthopaedic software providers
- High-quality images and implementation through Zimmer process
- Global standard for all Zimmer templates
- Customer and field personnel support through www.digital@zimmer.com
- Support to certified providers
- All Zimmer templates and updates
- Changes to implant portfolio
- Information to improve quality and user-friendliness of software
- Continual template updating—with new-product templates made available at the time of product release
Advantages of Digital Templating:
- Possible to save planning to EMR (Electronic Medical Record) and EPR (Electronic Patient Record)
- X-rays readily available anywhere in hospital or via Web
- Reduced chance of data loss: x-rays reside on a server
- Much greater accuracy for templating than with film
- Quick pre-op planning: no searching for templates
- Ease in taking measurements and planning difficult cases
- CT, MR, x-ray can be visualized—future 3D possibility
- Designed to work within PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) and HIS (Hospital Information System) or as a stand-alone PC workstation or laptop
Zimmer Computer Assisted Solutions - Portable Navigation Solutions
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Confidence is CAS WITHOUT BARRIERS Zimmer Computer Assisted Solutions offers a truly portable navigation system with multiple application options to meet your needs within the OR. The iNav™* portable navigation system supports Zimmer® Minimally Invasive Solutions™ total hip and knee arthroplasty procedures with Optical and Electromagnetic branded AxiEM™* tracking technologies. This provides the following advantages:
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* iNav and AxiEM are trademarks of Medtronic, Inc.
