Orthocrat Signs With Smith and Nephew
to Distribute SpatialCad Preoperative Planning
Software for its Taylor Spatial Frame
Orthocrat Signs With Smith and Nephew to Distribute SpatialCad Preoperative
Planning Software for its Taylor Spatial Frame
New digital software for Taylor Spatial Frame is being made availible
(PRWEB) October 2, 2004 - Smith and Nephew a global provider and leader of joint
reconstruction, trauma and clinical therapy products purchases a 100 licenses of SpatialCad
software to enable it’s surgeons to be equipped for the digital radiography age.
Up to now surgeons were required to perform their planning on actual x-rays by drawing lines
and measuring angles, now when digital X-rays are becoming introduced we are required to
accommodate the change and provide a solution for our surgeons says Anthony James Vice
President of Trauma Development at Smith and Nephew. Designed by Orthocrat and Smith
and Nephew SpatialCad enables surgeons to perform preoperative planning for Taylor Spatial
Frame off digital X-ray images. The SpatialCad software allows surgeons to perform the
planning easier, faster and more accurately than ever before. The Smith&Nephew Frame, is a
unique external fixation system, is used to treat a variety of fractures and deformities.
At the heart of the Frame System is an algorithm created to perform the calculations needed
to accurately manipulate the Taylor Spatial Frame, a 6 degrees-of-freedom external fixator.
The Taylor frame fixator consists of two rings or partial rings connected by six telescopic struts
at special universal joints. By adjusting only strut lengths, one ring can be repositioned with
respect to the other. The multiple angles and translations of a given deformity are addressed
by adjusting lengths of struts only. The Taylor Spatial Frame fixator is capable of correcting a
six-axes deformity.
Anthony James Says: "Since Taylor Spatial Frame is computer driven devices making a
computer software for planning seemed like a natural way to go, and now finally we can
provide to our surgeons a simple and a user friendly and reproducible method to perform their
planning on digital images".
About Orthocrat
Orthocrat was established in early 2003 by a team of experienced surgeons, with the target of
developing practical computer assisted surgical techniques. TraumaCad is the first one of the
line of products from the company allowing pre-surgical planning of Trauma, Arthroplasty and
Osteotomy procedures. Orthocrat products are equally suited for small-medium size practice
as well as for larger academic institutions.
About Smith Nephew
Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics is a leading provider of joint reconstruction, trauma and clinical
therapy products. Based in Memphis, Tenn., the company strives to combine industry-leading
technology with its history of clinically proven products to deliver simpler, less invasive and
more cost-effective procedures to the orthopaedic community.
Smith & Nephew (NYSE: SNN, LSE: SN) (www..smiitth-nephew.com) is one of the world's
leading medical devices companies, specializing in Orthopaedics, Endoscopy and Advanced
Wound Management. Smith & Nephew ranks as the global leader in arthroscopy and advanced
wound management and is the fastest growing full-line orthopaedics company in the world.
Smith & Nephew is dedicated to helping improve people's lives. The company prides itself in
the strength of its relationships with its surgeon and healthcare professional customers, with
whom its name is synonymous with the highest standards of performance, innovation and
trust. The company has more than 7,000 employees and operates in 32 countries around the
world, generating sales of nearly $2 billion.
