KLS vs. Synthes

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What craniofacial system are y'all OMFS resis's using for trauma and osteotomies? We mostly use the Synthes modular, but a few old boys use the KLS. I'm sure Smith-Nephew and other companies make systems, but in my eight OR years I have never seen or used them for OMFS. What do y'all use and what is your preference and why?

 

[toofache32]

Synthes because they bought us a killer Radio/CD-player thingy for the OR. It has a remote we wrap sterile so we can just set it on the patient's chest and control it while we're scrubbed in.

 

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Synthes because they bought us a killer Radio/CD-player thingy for the OR. It has a remote we wrap sterile so we can just set it on the patient's chest and control it while we're scrubbed in.

Dang man, the only thing those cheap bastards ever gave us was some t-shirts that read, "I just billed my patient $20,000 for this hardware and all I got was this box of cold Krispy Kremes." 👎

 

[esclavo]

What craniofacial system are y'all OMFS resis's using for trauma and osteotomies? We mostly use the Synthes modular, but a few old boys use the KLS. I'm sure Smith-Nephew and other companies make systems, but in my eight OR years I have never seen or used them for OMFS. What do y'all use and what is your preference and why?

Stryker/Leibinger... I wish we had 3 systems in the hospital so we could get comfortable with multiple systems...

 

[scalpel2008]

What craniofacial system are y'all OMFS resis's using for trauma and osteotomies? We mostly use the Synthes modular, but a few old boys use the KLS. I'm sure Smith-Nephew and other companies make systems, but in my eight OR years I have never seen or used them for OMFS. What do y'all use and what is your preference and why?

Synthes, Stryker, Osteomed, KLS, Lorenz...mostly Synthes and Stryker for trauma, osteomed for orthognathic.

 

[Ankylosed]

Synthes, Stryker, Osteomed, KLS, Lorenz...mostly Synthes and Stryker for trauma, osteomed for orthognathic.

Thanks for the scholarly answers gents. I guess I need to get out of my own OR more to see what else is out there. Stryker has infiltrated my hospital with all there high tech crap including plasma tv's in the OR, so it is a mystery to me how they haven't wedged their AO sets into the OMFS dept.. On a different note, anyone use those little synthes torque screwdrivers with self tapping screws? !SWEET! The rep told me it was just a trial, but I was wondering if any of y'all got your hands on it yet?

 

[scalpel2008]

Thanks for the scholarly answers gents. I guess I need to get out of my own OR more to see what else is out there. Stryker has infiltrated my hospital with all there high tech crap including plasma tv's in the OR, so it is a mystery to me how they haven't wedged their AO sets into the OMFS dept.. On a different note, anyone use those little synthes torque screwdrivers with self tapping screws? !SWEET! The rep told me it was just a trial, but I was wondering if any of y'all got your hands on it yet?

stryker has a good trauma set too but i like synthes better. yes, i know about the new torque screw drivers. those are the T bars right? well, they came out with it a few weeks ago but they recalled them because if you notice, you have to pull down on that grip thing to disengage the screw driver head. they decided and rightfully so that this is a bad design because when you put force to tap those screws in you can easily disngage it. so at the AO course in chicago this past weekend i saw the new and improved version which you have to pull up on the grip thing to disengage it; everything else is identical. as far as i know, they haven't released it yet. infact they were surprised i knew about the flaw in the previous one and that they were coming out with a new one. anyway, sweet device nonetheless.