Augmedics’ xvision Spine System has been successfully used for the first time in a spinal fusion surgery in the United States. The system was used in a spinal surgery procedure by Johns Hopkins University surgeons.
xvision, an Augmented Reality Guidance system for surgery, allows surgeons to visualize the 3D spinal anatomy of a patient during surgery as if they had “x-ray vision,” and to accurately navigate instruments and implants while looking directly at the patient, rather than a remote screen. The xvision Spine System takes the best of surgical navigation systems and improves upon them to meet the needs of surgeons and provide technical confidence in the operating room.
The surgery with the xvision Spine System was a posterior lumbar decompression, slipped vertebrae (spondylolisthesis) correction, and fusion. It was performed on June 8 at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, by Dr. Timothy Witham, director of the Johns Hopkins Neurosurgery Spinal Fusion Laboratory, along with Dr. Daniel Sciubba, director of Spine Tumor and Spine Deformity Surgery in the Department of Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins and Dr. Camilo Molina, resident, Neurological Surgery at Johns Hopkins.