Spacer for Hip

Tecres Spacer G

Spacer for Hip
Spacer for Hip

The Tecres spacer for hip has a load-bearing structure in stainless steel coated with antibiotic bone cement and it resembles a femoral prosthesis.

Advantages for surgeons:

Saving Time:

ready to use, with preformed shapes and different sizes. It makes faster both the surgery first stage and the second one.

Safety:

the devices have mechanical and pharmacological performances standardized and certified.

Effectiveness:

known, extended and long release of antibiotic.

Less responsibility:

using of an industrial device, not an hand-made one.

Advantages for patients

Better quality of life:

spacer allows deambulation with partial weight-bearing and permits to make some basic daily activities, this allows the patient to be independent.

Possibility to make physiotherapy.

Reduction of functional recovery time:

faster discharge from hospital.

Product Variants :

  • Spacer-G: preformed spacer loaded with gentamicin (3 sizes of head with long stem and 3 sizes of head with short stem)
  • Spacer-G Flat Stem: preformed spacer loaded with gentamicin with flat stem designed to preserve the greater trochanter (3 sizes of head with long stem and 3 sizes of head with short stem)
  • Vancogenx-Space: preformed spacer loaded with vancomycin & gentamicin (3 sizes of head with long stem and 3 sizes of head with short stem)
Spacer for Hip
This following table contains information about Head size of spacer with vanco-genta and with genta
Spacer for Hip

Benefits :

  • Ready to use device
  • Maintenance of joint space and mobilisation
  • Effective in situ release of antibiotic
  • Deambulation with partial weight-bearing
  • Facilitation of definitive re-implant surgery
  • Standardized mechanical performance
  • Reduction of functional recovery time after the two stage procedure

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