Dr.

Jon Lea Advanced Technology Manager GE Healthcare Surgery

Dr. Laurent Node-Langlois NAV Engineering Manager GE Healthcare Surgery

December 3 WEB 1250 3:05 p.m.

ABSTRACT:

Surgical Navigation

The medical device industry is one of the world's largest and fastest growing industries. Everyday a new company is created with one goal: provide a better care and faster recovery to all the patients. Today we will focus on one example in this industry: GE Healthcare. After going through a short description of what is GE Healthcare, we'll describe the Surgery Business (based in Salt Lake City) to finally dive into the Surgical Navigation segment. Together we will try to answer the following questions: What is Surgical Navigation? Is there a need for it? Who are the different players? How does it work? The complexity in the surgical area is to bring a new high-end tool without impacting the regular surgical workflow. Indeed, adding time during a surgical procedure can be critical for the patient health: it increases blood loss and can eventually create serious complications related to extended anesthesia. As we will see, the Healthcare industry is highly regulated. In the United States the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversees every product based on their classification and level of risk. Fortunately today you can't put a medical product on the market without their approval, but it comes to a cost for the manufacturer. Along this talk we will try to use specific examples to better illustrate how this regulation contributes to the design of a medical device. We will use the Surgical Navigation system as an example. Eventually we will go over the clinical benefits as described by the end users.
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Biography of Jon Lea Jon Lea is the Advanced Technology and Clinical Research Manager for the Surgical Division of GE Healthcare. Jon received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Western Michigan University and Northwestern University, respectively, with a focus on robotics for surgery. Jon was co-founder of Surgical Insights, a developer of surgical navigation applications for orthopedics, which was acquired by GE in 2001. He held technical positions within GE's surgical navigation business in the Boston area before relocating to Utah. He enjoys downhill skiing, mountain biking, and playing the guitar and piano. Biography of Laurent Node Langlois Laurent Node-Langlois received an MSc in Mechanical engineering from the University of Grenoble, France (1999) and a PhD in Biomechanics from the Arts et Metiers ParisTech (ENSAM), France (2003). While completing his PhD, Laurent joined TORNIER in 2000 to lead the development of their first imageless Surgical Navigation systems dedicated to Total Knee Replacement (TKR). During this period he focused on meeting with expert surgeons to understand their clinical needs and spent countless hours in the operating room learning about the surgical procedures. In addition, Laurent became involved in the validation of a new 3D imaging system (EOS imaging) and thanks to this experience with 3D imaging, Surgical applications and Navigation he was selected to join GE Healthcares Advance Applications Team in 2005 in Boston, MA. As a member of GEs Advanced Technology Team, Laurent worked on the business roadmap & next generation product portfolio. He led the design and clinical testing of the first GEHC micro-sensor electromagnetic surgical navigation system dedicated to vascular interventions. Later in 2008, Laurent took the management of the Systems team where he led the Verification and Validation of the ENT & Cranial Navigation systems. Today, Laurent is responsible for the Surgical Navigation Engineering department charged with designing the next generation products for the Navigation business.

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