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Robotic Assisted Vertebral Body Augmentation - a Radiation Reduction Tool
NCT01269359 · Hadassah Medical Organization · Updated 22 March 2013
- What is being tested
- robotic assisted surgery
- For
- Vertebral Body Augmentation
- Kind of study
- Watches patients without assigning a treatment. No drug phase (a device or procedure study).
- Who can join
- Ages 18 years to 85 years. About 100 people. The full rules are on the registry page.
- Where
- Israel
- When
- Not stated. Registered 4 Jan 2011.
- Results
- None posted yet.
In the researchers' words
Modern orthopedic and spine surgeons strive towards minimizing surgical exposure and towards increased precision in the placement of implants. This trend requires an increased use of fluoroscopic guidance, which leads to increased exposure of the patient, surgeon and the operating room staff to radiation. Robotic assisted spine surgery is routinely performed in the authors' institution for a variety of indications such as degenerative conditions, trauma, tumors , infections and deformity correction11. The objective of this study is to compare the radiation exposure time during robotic guided vertebral body augmentation to the published results for similar surgeries.
Sites
- Hadassah Medical OrganizatonJerusalem, Israel