Category: Products Launch
LEESBURG, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–K2M, Inc., a spinal device company developing innovative solutions for the treatment of complex spinal pathologies, today announced the launch of the CASPIAN™ Spinal System. CASPIAN is an all-inclusive system for rigid posterior fixation addressing the high surgeon demand for treatment of complex cervico-thoracic spinal conditions. This comprehensive system is the first to [...]
Applied Spine Technologies (AST), Inc. (www.appliedspine.com), a medical device company focused on motion preservation of the lumbar spine, announces that it has received permission from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to proceed with enrollment in their IDE trial of the Stabilimax NZ(R) Dynamic Spine Stabilization System. The trial resumes after AST voluntarily suspended [...]
Globus Medical launched the COALITION ACDF Spacer System. The device combines a PEEK interbody spacer with a titanium alloy plate and two titanium alloy screws, and the company says the design “reduces procedural steps, minimizes retraction and lags the spacer to the vertebral endplates to compressively load the fusion area.” The COALITION(TM) technology combines a [...]
Medtronic received long-awaited FDA approval for its Bryan cervical disc on May 12. The device received a favorable FDA panel recommendation in July of 2007, just a day after Medtronic’s Prestige disc was approved for market launch. Under the conditions for Bryan’s approval, Medtronic will conduct a 10-year post-market study tracking patients’ neck disability index [...]
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