Orthopedics
Smith & Nephew, Medtronic, announce computer-assisted surgery and open platform strategy
Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, August 4th, 2002
The announcement of an open platform strategy signals Smith & Nephew's commitment to promoting broad surgeon adoption of CAS tools in orthopedics as a way to bring truly minimally invasive and more accurate knee, hip, and trauma applications to patient communities.
Smith & Nephew has formed a dedicated CAS team that will focus on designing and bringing these enabling technologies to the marketplace. It is predicted that a quarter of...
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