Orthopedic

A surgeon has completed the first fully remote simulated robotic total knee arthroplasty from 1,700 miles away, using a system from Monogram Orthopedics. 

Five orthopedic surgeons connected with Becker's to discuss how surgeons 10 years from now will look back at how orthopedic procedures are performed today.

Meeker-based Colorado Advanced Orthopedics, Sports Medicine and Spine serves patients in the White River Valley area, specializing in knee replacements, hip replacements and more. Here are six things to know about the practice: 

Franklin Memorial Hospital, based in Farmington, Maine, added Ian Dickey, MD, to its orthopedic surgery team. 

Bioretec, a developer of bioresorbable orthopedic implants, has earned market authorization for its RemeOs trauma screw in the U.S. 

The University of Alabama Medical Center's program in Birmingham was the orthopedic surgery residency program with the most Freida database interest in 2022, according to a March 9 report from the American Medical Association.

Four orthopedic surgeons suing their former employer are now working with Trinity Health, MiBiz reported March 30.

Armodios Hatzidakis, MD, surgeon at Denver-based Western Orthopedics, Denver Surgery Center and Rose Medical Center, has completed the first U.S. clinical case using Stryker's Tornier pyrocarbon humeral head for shoulder hemiarthroplasty. 

Steven Struhl, MD, operated on Broadway actor Ben Bogen, according to a March 30 news release.

Richard Berger, MD, reached a milestone 25,000 hip and knee replacements, he said March 29.