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Radiation Exposure

Surgeons’ Greatest Reliance On fluoroscopy During Procedures Exposes All O.R Personnel To Dangerous Radiation

Surgeons are highly exposed especially in MIS surgeries¹ and in scoliosis surgeries².
Radiation exposure in spine surgery has been found to be 10 to 12 times greater than other fluoroscopically-assisted non-spinal musculoskeletal procedures³.
An average spine surgeon will receive the maximum allowable lifetime exposure of radiation within 10 years of practice⁴.

What Surgeons Say About Radiation Exposure

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SpineGuard is a progressive and innovative company. The DSG^® Technology helps me perform complex spine surgery in a safer and more consistent manner with reduced intra-operative radation.

Hee-Kit Wong, M.D.
Orthopadic Surgeon, Singapore

Decreasing overall radiation exposure both shielded and un-shielded is very important because even when we are shielded parts of us are still exposed. This rings true personally for me because one of my practice partners passed away from what we believe was radiation thyroid malignancy. These are not just abstractions of fear but are real things that we can measure and knowing that radiation is a quantitative, a cumulative dose and anything that we can do to cut down 10 to 20% would have a tremendous impact on our safety and practice.

Larry Khoo, M.D.
Co-founder of SMISS & ISASS

I am very concerned about repeated exposure to radiation over a lifetime of work. I think it is a significant and increasing problem because with minimally invasive techniques we are using far more radiation then our predecessors were.

Ciaran Bolger, M.D.
Neurosurgeon, Ireland

We are very concerned about repeated radiation especially now with the new techniques since minimally invasive surgery was introduced in spinal surgery

Helton Defino, M.D.
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Brazil

The cannulated PediGuard^® device improves my pedicle screw accuracy and diminishes my need for fluoroscopy in all MIS settings

John I. Williams, MD
Orthopaedic surgeon, Indiana

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PediGuard Devices Can Significantly Reduce Radiation

Studies show that the PediGuard probe can significantly reduce the radiation exposure to the surgeon and the OR team.

73%

Reduction of X-Ray time in MIS⁵

51%

Reduction of thyroid radiation exposure to the surgeon⁵

30%

Reduction of X-Ray shots in open surgeries^2-8

54%

Reduction of dose area product⁹

References

1 – Bindal RK et al. J Neurosurg Spine. 2008 Dec;9(6):570-3
2 – Ul Haque M et al. Spine. 2006;31:2516–2520.
3 – Rampersaud 2000
4 – Ul Haque 2006
5 – Lubansu A et al. EurosSpine 2011
6 – Bai YS et al. J Spinal Disord Tech. 2013 Aug;26(6):316-20.
7 – Chaput C et al. Spine 2012 Oct 15; 37(21): E1314–E1321.
8 – Defino H et al. Coluna/Columna. 2020;19(3):189-93
9 – Heimen K. DWG meeting 2014

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