ASCs performing spine surgery lack on-site surgeons to handle complications like misplaced screws hitting blood vessels. With annual budgets around $500,000 and small, non-lead-lined ORs, they can't afford advanced imaging. Simple navigation tools like Bolt Navigation become critical for safety when emergencies mean calling 911.
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if you airball a screw and you get in one of those vessels, the best thing you can do is call 911 and hope the ambulance gets there in time, right? Because you don't have a general surgeon on staff to come in and help you fix that problem. They are nervous about moving their, their procedures there. Capital spend— annual capital spend for an ASC is $500,000 total. Spend 3 years, 2 years worth of capital on one— you're not— oh, and oh, by the way, as you say It doesn't even fit down the hall or in the rooms 'cause they're smaller. And oh, by the way, those rooms aren't lead-lined, so you can't use a CT system in there. And that's where, you know, we feel like we have, you know, a lot of hay to make. The other thing that we're seeing is as surgeons are losing block time, or more importantly, beds, I don't know what happened during COVID but they're not getting block times and beds that they used to get. So they're starting to move these procedures to the satellite hospitals.