Johnson & Johnson's Acclarent launched its real-time, 3-D ENT navigation system TruDi.
Here's what you should know.
1. Physicians treated the first patients with TruDi at two U.S.-based healthcare facilities April 16.
2. The TruDi system is an electromagnetic image-guided system ENT Surgeons can use for endoscopic sinus surgeries and for both intranasal and paranasal image-guided navigation procedures.
3. The system also allows for the use of Relieva Spinplus Nav, the first 3-D navigation-enabled balloon sinuplasty system.
4. Acclarent developed TruDi with Biosense Webster's advanced imaging systems.
Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Cardiovascular & Specialty Solutions Company Group Chair Shlomi Nachman said, "With the launch of TruDi, Acclarent builds on its legacy of pioneering minimally invasive treatment options for patients suffering from chronic sinusitis and eustachian tube dysfunction. We're extremely proud of this advancement and the potential it has to transform ENT procedures."