Software Solutions for Orthopedic Surgeons

Two new software programs are designed to help orthopedic surgeons manage clinical data and to evaluate and plan treatment of spinal abnormalities.

The Profile system, marketed as Cedara Orthoworks Care Manager, captures relevant clinical parameters during diagnosis, therapy and post-therapy follow-up. Powerful and intuitive data-mining tools allow users to quickly perform outcome analyses. User-selected data can be safely shared between users through secure e-mail enabling exchange and/or centralization of data for multi-center studies.

The second system, Spineview, which is marketed as Cedara Orthoworks Spine Analyser, detects the bone contours and measurements of the spinal vertebrae for cervical, lumbar, postural, and frontal analysis. Functional range of motion, mean centers of vertebral rotation, lordosis, and kyphosis are just a few of the 500-plus x-ray-based spine parameters that are available in Spine Analyzer's graphical display. The system's semi-automated spinal vertebral-anatomy-detection feature simplifies surgical planning and allows standard spinal measurements to be applied in less time. Accurate and reproducible measurements on two-dimensional (2D) x-rays images add vital information.

Both systems were developed by Surgiview (Paris, France). They are marketed by Cedara Software Corp. (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada).

"Now that the information is digital, OrthoWorks Spine Analyzer data is automatically populated into our OrthoWorks Care Manager database, saving us additional hours of laborious work plus the peace of mind of knowing I have left a documented audit trail of spinal analyses leading to my decisions,” said Dr. Stefan Parent, a spine surgeon at Sainte-Justine Hospital (Montreal, Quebec).



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