Captiva Spine Shares the Publication of a Prospective Randomized Comparative Clinical Study of Accuracy and Safety Data
JUPITER, Fla., April 24, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Captiva Spine®, a medical technology organization connecting healthcare professionals, distribution specialists, and healthcare facilities with cutting-edge spinal care technology, shares a recently published study in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine (JNS), affirming the effectiveness of the WatchTower Spine Navigation System and its novel 2D registration of a pre-operative CT for real-time 3D surgical navigation compared to navigation systems that utilize intra-operative CT scanners.
- The study concludes that the preoperative CT-based spinal navigation system matches the accuracy and safety of the conventional CT-based intra-operative system.
- Real-time 3D surgical Navigation is emerging as the standard of care in spine surgery.
- To date, navigation systems have relied on intra-operative CT scanning or touch registration of a pre-op CT scan to facilitate 3D navigation.
- The study concludes that the preoperative CT-based spinal navigation system matches the accuracy and safety of the conventional CT-based intra-operative system.