Disposable instrumentation for lumbar pedicle screw and rod constructs

The number of spinal surgeries has been steadily increasing these last years due to a constant ageing of the population. In the USA, the rate of instrumented fusion has tremendously increased since 1996 and cost-effectiveness has become a major concern [1, 2]. There is thus a need to improve cost-effectiveness at all stages of the therapeutic process of spinal instrumented fusion.