The following guest post was originally published by CDMN hub the Accelerator Centre and is published here with permission
Original source: thestar.com
Donning surgical scrubs on Monday, Dec. 16, Armen Bakirtzian stood in an operating room at Mount Sinai Hospital and held his breath.
Orthopedic surgeon Allan Gross was handling a device, which Bakirtzian initially designed as his final-year university design project.
After five years of work, and various iterations, it would finally be used for the first time in a patient — to help guide the placement of an artificial hip.
“It was a thrill for us, seeing our product used in a live OR,” said 28-year-old Bakirtzian, whose devices had first been tested in cadavers. “It was a dream we were picturing for years.”
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