CD HORIZON LONGITUDE Multi-Level Percutaneous Fixation System, designed to allow surgeons to place percutaneous screws and rods over multiple levels without the need for significant exposure.Key elements of the instrument set are a steerable rod inserter and reduction screw extenders.These critical elements allow for tactile, freehand rod passage through the large windows at the base of the screw extenders.Once through the windows, reduction of the rod into the screw occurs through gradual screw extender reduction.
CD Horizon Longitude minimally invasive system is designed to reduce muscle damage and scarring for patients undergoing complex back surgery.The system’s free-hand inserter and reduction screw extenders are designed to allow a stabilising rod to be passed through a small incision over numerous levels of vertebrae in the spine.
“The CD Horizon Longitude System is the only percutaneous fixation system designed to eliminate the traditional practice of muscle stripping and dissection over numerous levels for patients that require complex spinal surgery,” said Mark Dekutoski, associate professor in the department of orthopaedics at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester.
The CD Horizon Longitude System is part of Medtronic’s Minimal Access Spinal Technologies portfolio and complements the CD Horizon Sextant II System which allows surgeons to attach longer rod constructions and better treat patients through small incisions in the thoracic or thoracolumbar region.
About MIS
The trend in spine surgery for many procedures has been moving toward minimally invasive approaches. These include spine surgery for lumbar fusion, deformity surgery, cervical surgery and sacroiliac joint fusion. The benefits of minimally invasive spine surgery (MIS) include decreased pain, less blood loss, shorter hospital stays and faster recovery. However, there is a difficult learning curve for surgeons when mastering MIS procedures. Increasing familiarity with MIS techniques creates more options for surgeons treating spine conditions with the potential to decrease surgical complications. The goal of this conference is to update neurological and orthopedic surgeons, as well as allied health professionals on the latest advances in MIS surgical techniques.
About Medtronic
Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), based in suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota, is theworld’s largest medical technology company and is a Fortune 500 company.Medtronic was founded in 1949 in a garage in northeast Minneapolis by Earl Bakken and his brother-in-law Palmer Hermundslie as a medical equipment repair shop. They originally wanted to sell basketball pumps due to a shortage in the Midwest in the 20th century. Bakken began as a graduate student in electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota before he gave up his studies to focus on Medtronic.Through their repair business, Bakken came to know C. Walton Lillehei, a pioneer in the field of heart surgery then at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Lillehei was frustrated with the pacemakers of the day, which were quite large, applied electrical current externally (requiring higher voltages), and had to be plugged in to a wall outlet to operate. The deficiencies of such pacemakers were made painfully obvious following a power outage over Halloween in 1957 which affected large sections of Minnesota and western Wisconsin.As a direct result of this blackout, a pediatric patient of Dr. Lillehei who was pacemaker-dependent died. The next day, Lillehei spoke with Bakken about developing some form of battery-powered pacemaker. Stemming from this need, Bakken modified a design for a transistorized metronome to create the first battery-powered external artificial pacemaker.