Outpatient Spine

The Shrewsbury (Mass.) Surgery Center performed its first outpatient spine procedure, the center said Oct. 25. 

Ortho Rhode Island surgeon Robert Marchand, MD, performed a robotics-assisted total joint replacement at the practice's ASC in Warwick, the company said Oct. 19. 

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A North Carolina ASC added two robotic-assisted surgical systems one year after opening.

Brunswick Surgery Center in Leland, N.C., added two robotic-assisted surgical systems one year after opening. 

A Pennsylvania appeals court rejected arguments that a $10 million verdict in a patient death lawsuit against the now defunct Laser Spine Institute was so excessive that it required a new trial.

Mission Viejo, Calif.-based Providence Mission Hospital acquired a da Vinci Xi surgical system at its ASC, the hospital said Sept. 23. 

In the new "shopping" era of healthcare, some ASC leaders feel surgical robots are a way to stand out. 

MedStar Health is the first in in a U.S. multicenter study to use Miach Orthopaedics' Bridge-enhanced ACL Restoration Implant, the system announced Sept. 13. 

Suzanne Manzi, MD, co-founder of Houston-based Performance Pain & Sports Medicine, implanted her first patient with Medtronic's Vanta spinal cord stimulator.