ORTHOPAEDICS
Robotic-Assisted Surgery Shows
Reduced Complications and
Revisions for Spine Patients
Minimally-invasive neck and spine surgery with the Mazor
Robotics Renaissance® Guidance System offers unparalleled
accuracy. Studies are confirming that the benefits extend well
beyond the operating table.
A new study comparing robotic-guided spine surgery to conventional
surgical methods shows promising preliminary results in reduction of
surgical complications and revision surgeries.
In the study, procedures using the
Renaissance Guidance System by
Mazor Robotics are compared to
fluoroscopicguided
freehand
The system allows
procedures at all
levels of difficulty to
be performed with
higher efficiency
procedures. The
prospective study,
initiated in 2014,
tracks 379 spine
surgery patients
with data collected
by 10 surgeons
from 9 US surgical
sites. Initial
findings shared at
the October 2017 North American
Spine Society (NASS) Annual
Meeting revealed a dramatic 5-fold
reduction in surgical complications
as well as a seven-fold reduction in
revision surgeries for the roboticassisted
cases. With over 12,000
procedures performed, it has shown
dramatically improved results over
conventional
freehand minimallyinvasive
spine
surgery.
ABOUT ROBOTIC
ASSISTED SURGERY
Dr. Michael R.
Piazza of Orthopaedic
Specialties of
Tampa Bay is one of
and safety.
the few trained practitioners of Mazor’s
Renaissance Guidance System
in the Tampa Bay area. The Mazor
Robotics 3D imaging software allows
Dr. Piazza to map out the procedure
in advance, while the Renaissance
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