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Device Debuts: Spinal Innovation From NuVasive, Life Spine; Teleflex Targets EuroPCR For Arrow AC3 Optimus; Abiomed Pushes 3-G Impella

 
• By Reed Miller

This edition of Device Debuts covers the innovative devices introduced into commercial markets since the mid-April, typically a busy time for product launches as it coincides with spring's big medical meetings. This includes a series of spine-surgery technologies showcased at the AANS meeting and devices that support blood circulation during interventions that were featured at EuroPCR and SCAI.

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Device Debuts is a regular Medtech Insight feature highlighting new products introduced into the market for the first time, important new iterations of existing products, or launches of existing products into new markets for the first time. This month's edition includes a series of spine surgery devices and mechanical circulatory support devices launched at major medical meetings this spring.

NuVasive Inc. announced April 19 that it launched the Reline Trauma portfolio to coincide with the American Association of Neurological Surgeons meeting in Los Angeles the following week. The...

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