Bayan Aghdasi, MD, performed the first spine surgery integrating both Apple Vision Pro and Stryker’s Q navigation in the San Diego region, according to a March 19 email shared with Becker’s.
The surgery, a percutaneous lumbar fusion, was performed at Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside, Calif. Dr. Aghdasi used Stryker’s Q guidance with Co-Pilot paired with Apple Vision Pro.
“The combination of Apple Vision Pro augmented reality with Stryker Q guidance navigation allows an optimization of best in class technologies with synergy and precision that drives ease of instrumentation, accuracy of boney work, in an immersive ecosystem that incorporates smooth power, real time neuromonitoring informatics and massive visual scale to improve clinical performance to a new level of speed, perfection and comfort that is truly mesmerizing to experience,” Dr. Aghdasi said in a statement.
