SpineGuard Receives CE Mark For New Application Of Its Disruptive DSG (Dynamic Surgical Guidance) Platform

“This CE marking and first surgery materialize the integration of our DSG™ technology into a threaded drill. These are major steps toward the direct insertion of pedicle screws: in other words, the simplification of the most commonly instrumented spine surgery,” said Pierre Jérôme, CEO and Co-founder of SpineGuard

PARIS & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SpineGuard (FR0011464452 – ALSGD), an innovative company that designs, develops, and markets disposable medical devices designed to make spine surgery safer, announced today the CE marking for its DSG™ Threaded Drill and the first surgery, a thoraco-lumbar scoliosis correction, in Lille’s Centre Hospitalier Universitaire by Drs Assaker, Chopin and Allaoui.

“As a long-standing user of PediGuard probes, I find that this smart threaded drill is a useful technical improvement. It allows to prepare the entry point, redirect the trajectory when needed and remain in cancellous bone”

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“As a long-standing user of PediGuard probes, I find that this smart threaded drill is a useful technical improvement. It allows to prepare the entry point, redirect the trajectory when needed and remain in cancellous bone,” said Richard Assaker, MD, Professor of Neurosurgery at Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille, France. “If appropriate, we can also cross the cortical wall with a very high level of precision.”

Stéphane Bette, CTO and Co-Founder of SpineGuard, concluded: “This novel application of our DSG™ technology is the fruit of a close collaboration between our R&D team and our expert consulting surgeons. In line with healthcare systems expectations, SpineGuard continues to bring to market disruptive products designed to enhance the safety and efficiency of surgical procedures.”

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About SpineGuard®
Co-founded in 2009 in France and the USA by Pierre Jérôme and Stéphane Bette, SpineGuard’s mission is to make spine surgery safer. Its primary objective is to establish its proprietary DSG™ (Dynamic Surgical Guidance) technology as the global standard of surgical care, initially for safer screw placement in spine surgery and then in other surgeries. PediGuard®, the first device designed using DSG was co-invented by Maurice Bourlion, Ph.D., Ciaran Bolger, M.D., Ph.D., and Alain Vanquaethem, Biomedical Engineer. It is the world’s first and only handheld device capable of alerting surgeons to potential pedicular or vertebral breaches. Over 40,000 surgical procedures have been performed worldwide with PediGuard. Numerous studies published in peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals have demonstrated the multiple benefits that PediGuard delivers to patients, surgical staff and hospitals. In 2015 SpineGuard started to expand the applications of DSG into pedicle screws through partnerships with innovative surgical companies in France and the US. SpineGuard has offices in San Francisco and Paris. For further information, visit www.spineguard.com.

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