The materials linked below support your case in various selling situations. Whether discussing radiolucent lines and aseptic loosening with a surgeon or building your case to the Value Analysis Committee, these tools are essential to success!
WHITE PAPERS
- The Role of CarboJet CO2 Bone Preparation in the Reduction of Aseptic Loosening in Knee Arthroplasty
CASE VIGNETTES
- Bone preparation in cemented partial knee replacement using pressurized CO2 gas jet system
- Dennis McGee, MD, Saint Alphonsus Medical Group, Boise, ID
- UKAs are an excellent way to get your foot in the door to new accounts. The volume is smaller than TKA (so your hospitals won’t be as concerned about the cost), and the need for CarboJet is even greater, as described in this vignette.
- Also see McGee’s CarboJet and UKA slide deck from his AAOS 2013 Booth Presentation, and these studies (with common conclusion that aseptic loosening is the number one cause of UKA failure).
VALUE ANALYSIS PRESENTATION DOCUMENTS
- Surgeon Request Letter – CarboJet
- Have your surgeon(s) sign this and present to VAC, and/ or use these concise/ clinically supported talking points in your sales pitch.
- Also available in non-letter format in this CarboJet Clinical Summary document
- Value Analysis Presentation – CarboJet
- Sales presentation for surgeons translated for the VAC. Is concise and focused on issues that the “money-people” care about. The section on real-world analogous compressed gas applications provides a dose of “common sense”, and is backed up by several slides on the clinical evidence.
- The Role of CarboJet CO2 Bone Preparation in the Reduction of Aseptic Loosening in Knee Arthroplasty (White Paper)
- Clinician Reference List – CarboJet
DEPUY ATTUNE MATERIALS
- DePuy Attune Cement Technique Guide
- See Section 4.1 for Depuy’s official recommendation to use a “carbon dioxide jet” to prepare the bone.
- DePuy Attune S Talking Points on Lipids
- DePuy Attune S Master Sales Presentation Deck – Excerpts
- These slides excerpted to demonstrate the risk of not removing lipids and fluids from the cement interface during TKA. Full slide deck linked here.
- Improving Initial Strength of Tibial Tray-Cement Interface Bond – BJJ 2019
- Schmalzried et al
- Factors Influencing the Initial Strength of the Tibial Tray-PMMA Cement Bond
- Schmalzried et al
- See Related Blog Posts.
RELATED DOCUMENTS
- Setup & Usage Guide – CarboJet
- Provide to hospital staff as In-Service follow-up. Refer to this before eval surgeries for pointers on ensuring everything goes as planned.
- A Primer on CarboJet use in fresh Osteochondral Allograft (OCA) transplantation.
- This application opens up a door to a whole new target market (Sports Surgeons) for CarboJet. Also an excellent target market for KineMatch PFR…Oh the synergy!
- Also see study by Cole.
- Statement Regarding Infection Concerns
- We periodically get asked about CarboJet’s potential to increase risk of infection. This statement from our head of QA/RA addresses the concern.
- Safe Elective Surgery: Addressing the Need
- Paper illustrating that no studies have reported viable quantities of SARS- CoV-2 in blood, bone, bone marrow, or skeletal muscle in COVID-19 patients, therefore CarboJet is safe to use in surgical procedures during the pandemic.
NEW VENDOR/PRODUCT DOCUMENTS
- CarboJet IFU (Instructions for Use). Includes cleaning and sterilization instructions.
- CarboJet 510k
- Kinamed W9
- Product Order Form/ Patient Charge-Sheet