Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
In this insightful episode, Jeff Solimine from NEXT® Orthosurgical unveils the groundbreaking Interfuse system. Designed with patient wellness in mind, this posterior delivered interbody uses a PLIFF surgical technique that expands laterally, achieving an ALIF-sized footprint through a minimally invasive procedure. Discover how this innovative approach reduces potential complications like subsidence and offers a myriad of benefits for both patients and medical professionals.
00:00 Introduction
00:19 The Interfuse system.
00:39 Module Setup
01:44 Benefits for the Patient and Hospital Staff
03:14 Surgeon Training
03:43 Use of Cadavers and Sawbones for Training
Jeff Solimine:
We're on NEXT® Orthosurgical, and we're located here in Southern California. This is the Interfuse system. It's a unique posterior delivered interbody, using a PLIFF surgical technique, that can expand laterally to form an ALIF-sized footprint, all achieved through a minimally invasive procedure.
Posterior interbodies are generally narrower because they're inserted from behind. Due to their smaller size, they can lead to more subsidence compared to a larger ALIF-style interbody, which is inserted from the front. With the anterior approach, there's more space to access the spinal disk space.
The benefits of the Interfuse system include avoiding the need to flip the patient during surgery, reducing blood loss, and optimizing the footprint size to decrease subsidence that you might see with smaller posterior interbodies.
From a broader perspective, this anterior approach, compared to the posterior, saves on operation time, reduces blood loss, and proves beneficial not just for the patient, but also for the hospital staff, the surgeon, and the overall cost from a hospital's standpoint.
Although the Interfuse system takes a bit more time for the surgeon to implant because it involves creating a larger interbody within the disk space, it's ultimately better for the patient. Reduced subsidence means less chance of the interbody protruding into the end plates of the bone, which can cause the patient to lose vertebral height. This can alter the angle of their spinal alignment from when they had the surgery.
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In this insightful episode, Jeff Solimine from NEXT® Orthosurgical unveils the groundbreaking Interfuse system. Designed with patient wellness in mind, this posterior delivered interbody uses a PLIFF surgical technique that expands laterally, achieving an ALIF-sized footprint through a minimally invasive procedure. Discover how this innovative approach reduces potential complications like subsidence and offers a myriad of benefits for both patients and medical professionals.
00:00 Introduction
00:19 The Interfuse system.
00:39 Module Setup
01:44 Benefits for the Patient and Hospital Staff
03:14 Surgeon Training
03:43 Use of Cadavers and Sawbones for Training
Jeff Solimine:
We're on NEXT® Orthosurgical, and we're located here in Southern California. This is the Interfuse system. It's a unique posterior delivered interbody, using a PLIFF surgical technique, that can expand laterally to form an ALIF-sized footprint, all achieved through a minimally invasive procedure.
Posterior interbodies are generally narrower because they're inserted from behind. Due to their smaller size, they can lead to more subsidence compared to a larger ALIF-style interbody, which is inserted from the front. With the anterior approach, there's more space to access the spinal disk space.
The benefits of the Interfuse system include avoiding the need to flip the patient during surgery, reducing blood loss, and optimizing the footprint size to decrease subsidence that you might see with smaller posterior interbodies.
From a broader perspective, this anterior approach, compared to the posterior, saves on operation time, reduces blood loss, and proves beneficial not just for the patient, but also for the hospital staff, the surgeon, and the overall cost from a hospital's standpoint.
Although the Interfuse system takes a bit more time for the surgeon to implant because it involves creating a larger interbody within the disk space, it's ultimately better for the patient. Reduced subsidence means less chance of the interbody protruding into the end plates of the bone, which can cause the patient to lose vertebral height. This can alter the angle of their spinal alignment from when they had the surgery.
#doctech.live
#NASS2023
