Course proctored by Dr. Charlie Teo and Dr. Michael Sughrue

This past weekend, Synaptive Medical held a two-day surgical innovation course in La Jolla, California, on taking a connectomic approach to Glioma surgery.

Proctored by Dr. Charlie Teo of the Centre for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery at Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney, Australia, and Dr. Michael Sughrue of Oklahoma University Medicine, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the hands-on course featured Modus V™, Synaptive’s

Dr. Charlie Teo of the Centre for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery at Prince of Wales Hospital acted as a proctor for the surgical innovations course on taking a connectomic approach to Glioma surgery.

next generation robotic digital microscope. This course highlighted the future of Glioma surgery and cranial surgical approaches in general to avoid deficits in patients.

Thirteen neurosurgeons and one neuro psychologist took part in the lab and were given an overview of Modus V™ by Synaptive’s product managers.

Dr. Teo and Dr. Sughrue showcased successful results and patient outcomes using the BrightMatter™ and Modus V platforms, several of whom were patients that other institutions had deemed “inoperable.” They lectured on connectomics, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), white matter tractography, robotics and techniques in Glioma surgery.

The neurosurgeons had an opportunity to use Synaptive’s BrightMatter™ Plan to learn more about DTI and the functionality of the software and use it to plan disconnection planes on the

Dr. Michael Sughrue of OU Medicine acted as a proctor for the surgical innovations course on taking a connectomic approach to Glioma surgery.

lesions. After the planning session, they got hands-on with the Modus V™ during a cadaveric lab, operating on frontal, parietal and temporal lobes and to get a gross total resection while preserving function.

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