Monument Health showcases advanced spine robotic navigation system at the Black Hills Stock Show

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KEVN) – On Friday, Monument Health started showing off their Globus Excelsius spine robotic navigation system. The robotic navigation allows for more accurate placement during surgery, being that it lines up the exact spot where a screw might need to go. In the past, when physicians would do the surgery, they had to do it by eye or X-Ray, which often resulted in the patient having multiple surgeries. ”So the misplacement of screws, or having screws not in ideal locations, can be pretty high in the traditional way we did it with X-Ray. That’s still probably the main way done across the country, but the navigation system, which is the robot, would kind of correlate to apple maps, or google maps compared to the original Rand McNally maps we used to use. So the misplacement of hardware, the need to have to go back and do more surgery, is much much lower,” said Dr. Kyle Schmidt, neurosurgeon at Monument Health. The spine robotic navigation will be at The Monument in the ice arena through Sunday, and people can interact with it to see how it works. Copyright 2024 KOTA. All rights reserved.