As was shown last week at AAOS, companies are taking strides to connect their devices with technologies that support improved patient outcomes. That connection can come in the form of M&A activity - which certainly applies to transactions announced over the month of March in joint replacement.
Smith & Nephew's POLAR3 total hip system demonstrated excellent survivorship and significantly higher patient satisfaction vs. other cementless stems in National Joint Registry in the U.K.
iOrthopedics introduced the Gobi Spine Cage, evolving from its Uniformly Expanding Cage patents toward 50% expansion uniformly, proximally or distally.