New Technology at Marcus Neuroscience Institute Supports Robotic-Assisted Spine Surgery
Every millimeter matters when you’re undergoing delicate spine surgery. That’s why a new groundbreaking robotic platform to assist neurosurgeons adds an extra measure of surety at Marcus Neuroscience Institute. Using state-of-the art technology that promises to become tomorrow’s standard of care, neurosurgeons Frank Vrionis, M.D. and Timothy Miller, M.D., recently performed the Institute’s first minimally-invasive robotic-assisted surgery on a patient who required spinal fusion. “This is the new evolution of spine surgery,” says Dr. Vrionis, director of Marcus Neuroscience Institute, located at Baptist Health’s Boca Raton Regional Hospital. “Robotics allow us to perform minimally-invasive surgeries with increased safety and precision, leading to less blood loss, less post-operative pain and faster recovery.” Want to see more? Baptist Health South Florida’s Resource Blog https://baptisthealth.net/news Like us on Facebook / baptisthealthsf Follow Baptist Health on Twitter / baptisthealthsf Follow Baptist Health on Instagram / baptisthealthsf [Transcript] Speaker 1: Patients should come to Marcus Neuroscience Institute for spine care because first of all, we offer the full spectrum of comprehensive spine care from the least invasive to the most invasive. Speaker 2: This is the Medtronic Mazor robot. This is really an all-inclusive planning tool and intraoperative tool for spine surgery. We use it to put together a complete and thorough preoperative plan for the patient, which allows us to optimize outcomes. It allows us to plan trajectories for screw placement, for rod placement. It allows us to plan these things very precisely preoperatively and then execute those things with extreme precision in the operating room. Some of the benefits to the patient would be things such as reduced blood loss, reduced intraoperative time, reduced postoperative pain, which allows patients to mobilize easier and just overall have an enhanced recovery. Speaker 1: We are recently becoming a comprehensive spine center, one of the very few out of 100 in the United States and the only one in Palm Beach County. So I believe we are very well-equipped and of course you can see behind me the newest type of technology that we offer, but we have much more than that in the institute.
