Sam Brusco, Associate Editor10.11.22
ZimVie has launched its Virage navigation system, an occipital-cervico-thoracic spinal fixation system featuring the company’s 360o omnidirectional extreme-angle screw.
Virage aims to simplify rod alignment and minimize operating time, with screws allowing 112o of conical range of motion and assisting in optimal screw placement. Virage is compatible with commercially available navigation systems and allows navigation of bone prep instruments and polyaxial screws in the spine.
Virage Navigation complements the previously released Vital navigation system for the thoracolumbar spine, advancing the company’s navigation compatibility offering.
“The Virage Navigation System plays a crucial role in ZimVie’s enabling technology strategy, rounding out our ability to navigate pedicle screws in the entire spine,” Rebecca Whitney, SVP and global spine president of ZimVie told the press. “Virage also allows us to compete with existing navigation-compatible systems.”
Virage provides information to guide surgical planning via creation of a 3D map between points on the patient and corresponding points on the patient’s images to track patient and surgical instrument position in real-time using an array, as well as displaying real-time tracked instrument position and trajectory relative to the patient’s anatomy.
Surgeons can use this info to plan and realized point of entry, trajectory, and final instrument position to achieve best spinal implant placement. This is especially helpful in minimally invasive surgery procedures, where normal visibility might be reduced due to smaller incisions.
Virage aims to simplify rod alignment and minimize operating time, with screws allowing 112o of conical range of motion and assisting in optimal screw placement. Virage is compatible with commercially available navigation systems and allows navigation of bone prep instruments and polyaxial screws in the spine.
Virage Navigation complements the previously released Vital navigation system for the thoracolumbar spine, advancing the company’s navigation compatibility offering.
“The Virage Navigation System plays a crucial role in ZimVie’s enabling technology strategy, rounding out our ability to navigate pedicle screws in the entire spine,” Rebecca Whitney, SVP and global spine president of ZimVie told the press. “Virage also allows us to compete with existing navigation-compatible systems.”
Virage provides information to guide surgical planning via creation of a 3D map between points on the patient and corresponding points on the patient’s images to track patient and surgical instrument position in real-time using an array, as well as displaying real-time tracked instrument position and trajectory relative to the patient’s anatomy.
Surgeons can use this info to plan and realized point of entry, trajectory, and final instrument position to achieve best spinal implant placement. This is especially helpful in minimally invasive surgery procedures, where normal visibility might be reduced due to smaller incisions.