“Continuing to provide surgical efficiency through its Ready-For-Surgery platform, Flower Orthopedics announces the launch of its New MTP Fusion Plate Portfolio. An integral component in Flower’s First Ray IndicationCube—featuring the Flower E-Kit—the Flower MTP Fusion portfolio creates a faster procedure, requires a smaller incision and reduces the overall cost of providing care.”
Flower Orthopedics Launches New Fusion Portfolio
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“The Flower First Ray IndicationCube contains the entire MTP Fusion Plate portfolio, variable angle locking and non-locking compression screws, cannulated screws, Flower E-Kit and all ancillary instruments for the case.”
“The New MTP fusion plates provide anatomic screw fixation and accommodate for up to two cannulated interfrag screws, producing the most biomechanically stable construct. The few instruments found in the Flower E-Kit insert all implants required for the procedure—the plate, plating screws and cannulated screws.”
“The Flower E-Kit—contains instruments engineered to reduce the number of surgical steps of the procedure, while eliminating multiple instrument trays from cluttering the OR back table and from costly cleaning and sterilization cycles.”
“The New Flower MTP Fusion Plate offers a stable construct and a low-profile, anatomically contoured design. Combined with the instruments found in the E-Kit, I am able to complete MTP Fusion cases in less time with the FlowerCube—system than I am with other products, ” says Dr.—Stephen Arndt from Naperville, Illinois.
“Available for several different anatomic applications, Flower IndicationCubes allow for multiple cases to be completed back-to-back without delay, or simultaneously in the same facility. The efficiencies provided by the combination of the Flower IndicationCube and Flower E-Kit are unmatched by the industry and are changing the way surgery is completed.”
“Whether it is addressing infection potential, eliminating set reprocessing expenses or preventing delays in the OR, the Flower Orthopedics Ready-for-Surgery portfolio is a proven method that surgeons and healthcare facilities use to reduce the overall cost of providing patient care. Flower development team works tirelessly with leading surgeons to decrease the number of surgical steps of a given procedure and to design instruments that make surgeries faster and more reproducible. Combining the surgical efficiency with the inherent efficiencies of the Ready-for-Surgery model, Flower Orthopedics is reducing the cost of care for a wide range of extremity applications.”
Flower Orthopedics CEO Oliver Burckhardt told OTW, “The addition the New MTP Fusion Portfolio is an expansion our Ready-for-Surgery offering and allows us to cover an even wider range of clinical applications. At the core of Flower Orthopedics our development team focuses on providing surgical efficiency, which when coupled with the inherent efficiencies our industry leading FlowerCube model, drives significant savings to the cost of providing the highest level of care.”
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This is a fascinating development. In my practice we've seen similar outcomes with the revised protocol. The key differentiator seems to be patient selection criteria. Has anyone else noticed the correlation with BMI thresholds?
Great point. I'd push back slightly on the conclusion, the sample size in the cited study is too small to draw population-level inferences. That said, the directional signal is compelling and worth a larger RCT.
We implemented a similar approach last year. Early results are promising but we're still gathering 12-month follow-up data. Happy to share our protocol if anyone is interested.
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