{"id":163051,"date":"2023-04-29T19:26:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T00:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/seattle-startup-gets-fda-clearance-for-new-surgical-imaging-tool"},"modified":"2023-04-29T19:26:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T00:26:06","slug":"seattle-startup-gets-fda-clearance-for-new-surgical-imaging-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/seattle-startup-gets-fda-clearance-for-new-surgical-imaging-tool","title":{"rendered":"Seattle startup gets FDA clearance for new surgical imaging tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/seattle-startup-gets-fda-clearance-for-new-surgical-imaging-tool2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Seattle medical tech company\u2019s revolutionary surgical imaging instrument has become the first light-enabled navigation tool for spine surgery to receive Food and Drug Administration clearance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters:<\/strong> Officials with <a class=\"\" data-vars-link-text=\"Proprio\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.propriovision.com\/\" data-vars-content-id=\"f55cc801-3159-4260-aee6-b32353cd45f7\" data-vars-headline=\"Seattle startup gets FDA clearance for new surgical imaging tool\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propriovision.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Proprio<\/a> believe the tool, which allows surgeons to essentially \u201csee\u201d the spine being operated on in real time, could dramatically improve clinical outcomes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Driving the news:<\/strong> This month, the Paradigm device received the FDA <a class=\"\" data-vars-link-text=\"510(k) clearance\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/medical-devices\/device-approvals-denials-and-clearances\/510k-clearances\" data-vars-content-id=\"f55cc801-3159-4260-aee6-b32353cd45f7\" data-vars-headline=\"Seattle startup gets FDA clearance for new surgical imaging tool\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/medical-devices\/device-approvals-denials-and-clearances\/510k-clearances\" target=\"_blank\">510(k) clearance<\/a> that\u2019s required for new medical implements before they are taken to market, Proprio said in an emailed announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Seattle medical tech company\u2019s revolutionary surgical imaging instrument has become the first light-enabled navigation tool for spine surgery to receive Food and Drug Administration clearance. Why it matters: Officials with Proprio believe the tool, which allows surgeons to essentially \u201csee\u201d the spine being operated on in real time, could dramatically improve clinical outcomes. Driving [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}