7D Surgical receives FDA, Health Canada clearance for its spine surgery guidance system: 5 things to know

The FDA and Health Canada both cleared 7D Surgical’s image guidance system for spine surgery. 7D Surgical is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Here are five things to know:

 

1. The FDA and Health Canada medical device license clearances allow 7D Surgical to commercially launch its 7D Surgical System in North America.

 

2. The 7D Surgical System leverages 3-D optical technologies and machine vision algorithms.

 

3. The system automatically registers spine surgery patients using visible light with Flash Registration of the patients’ anatomies.

 

4. 7D Surgical System also provides a workflow time of less than 20 seconds for de novo spinal registration.

 

5. The system’s Machine-vision Image Guided Surgery technology is embedded within an overhead surgical light. Surgeons control the software with a foot pedal.

 

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