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On Thursday, November 16, at 6:00 p.m. (MT), LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, UT will broadcast a live Zimmer MIS Total Knee replacement procedure featuring the Zimmer Gender Solutions High-Flex Knee, the first knee replacement shaped to fit a woman's anatomy.
This OR-Live.com broadcast is in conjunction with the Zimmer MIS Surgical Solutions in the Hip & Knee Symposium.
On
Monday, November 6, at 6:00 pm (PST), Zimmer, Inc. will broadcast a
live surgical demonstration on OR-Live.com of the Zimmer® MISTM Periarticular
Locking Plate procedure with the 3.5mm Proximal Lateral Tibial locking
plate and the Distal Lateral Femoral locking plate as well as the
innovative instrumentation developed for this tissue-friendly approach
to plating.
With
the Periarticular Locking Plate System, Zimmer offers advanced
solutions for the management of comminuted fractures and fractures in
which deficient bone stock or where poor bone quality is encountered.
The system combines anatomically contoured periarticular plates with
locking screw technology. The unique plate designs feature a
transitioned profile that is thinner in the metaphyseal and thicker in
the diaphyseal areas. Locking screw holes are combined with compression
slots, so that the plates can be used both as locking devices and a
fracture compression device.
On Monday, October 30, 2006 at 7pm EST Crittenton Hospital in Rochester Hills, Michigan will host a live surgical broadcast featuring Jeffrey H. DeClaire, MD, of the DeClaire Knee & Orthopaedic Institute. Dr. DeClaire will perform a patellofemoral joint replacement using the Vanguard™ PFR patellofemoral replacement system from Biomet Orthopedics, Inc.
The Vanguard™ Patellofemoral (PFR) System is a bone and ligament sparing implant that employs proven patellar and trochlear geometry and tracking based on a total knee system. The reproducible and instrumented technique may be performed using a traditional or quad-sparing technique.
On Monday, October 16, at 5:00 p.m. CDT, Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL will broadcast on http://www.OR-Live.com a live total knee replacement procedure featuring the Zimmer Gender Solutions High-Flex Knee, the first knee replacement shaped to fit a woman's anatomy.
The procedure uses an Zimmer MIS™ sub-vastus approach and requires an incision of only 9 to 14 cm, compared with 20 to 30 cm used in a standard knee replacement arthroplasty. Among the goals of this minimally invasive technique are shorter hospital stays, lower blood loss, faster rehabilitation and a more cosmetically appealing surgical scar.
On Thursday, October 12, at 6:00 pm (EDT), Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack, NJ, will broadcast a live Zimmer MIS Posterior Approach Total Hip Replacement procedure on www.OR-Live.com featuring the Trabecular Metal™ Primary Femoral Stem and the Durom® Shell and Large Diameter Head System featuring Metasul® Metal-on-Metal Technology.
The Trabecular Metal Primary Femoral Stem is the first and only hip stem with Trabecular Metal material for an ingrowth surface. This exciting product combines the proven characteristics of Trabecular Metal Technology with stem design features that are designed to improve initial fixation, enhance rotational stability, improve proximal load transfer, resist subsidence and enhance potential for long-term biologic fixation.
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