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Episode 166. What I Wish I Knew When I Started in SPD | Sarah B. Cruz
Happy Sterile Processing Week 2026! 🎉 In this episode, we sit down with Sterile Processing Manager and HSPA President-Elect Sarah B. Cruz to talk about her journey into the industry, lessons she’s learned along the way, and advice for those just starting their careers in Sterile Processing.
Morning Brief — Thursday, October 15, 2026
FDA approves two-level use of Centinel Spine's prodisc C Nova, making three of Centinel's four cervical discs labeled for one or two contiguous levels · Zimmer Biomet and THINK Surgical sign a multi-year extension of their exclusive distribution deal for a Persona-compatible version of the TMINI handheld knee robot · Patient-specific spine at NASS: Carlsmed starts the full U.S. launch of its aprevo lumbar bi-lateral posterior system as Globus previews its FDA-cleared SCRIPT patient-specific platform · JBJS: 791 anatomic total shoulders from Florida Orthopaedic Institute show 96% implant survival at 10 years, but 69.5% of shoulders at the patient-acceptable threshold
AHRMM SME Podcast featuring Michael LaRocca
Supply chain readiness isn't just about having enough inventory on the shelves. It's about having everything ready when a patient needs care. On this episode of the AHRMM Subject Matter Expert Podcast, Michael LaRocca, Founder and CEO of Ready Computing, joins us to discuss why this distinction matt
Morning Brief — Monday, October 12, 2026
DePuy Synthes signs a U.S. sales agency agreement with SMAIO for the KEOPS-4ME planning platform and patient-specific K-ROD rods · FDA grants De Novo to Brixton Biosciences' ReneuRx (Neural Ice), an injectable cold slurry for knee OA pain, creating a new Class II category · Anesthesia & Analgesia RCT, 180 PLIF patients: deep neuromuscular block cut 3-month chronic postsurgical pain from 34.8% to 19.1% versus moderate block; no significant difference at 6 months · J Neurosurg Spine, CSM-Protect secondary analysis: dysphagia after multilevel anterior surgery for cervical myelopathy peaked at 68.6% and was still 36.4% at one year
Lead with Confidence - So You've Just Been Promoted: A Sterile Processing Leadership QuickStart Guide
You've been promoted. Congratulations! But what happens when the people you worked beside yesterday are suddenly looking to you for answers today? In this episode of "Lead with Confidence," Brian Ascencio from Surgical Solutions gets real about the challenges of making the leap from technician to fi
From Fort Bragg To The First Reverse In The US: Device Nation Salutes The Extraordinary Career Of Dr. Carl Basamania!
The reverse total shoulder is on OR schedules every day now, but someone had to do the first one in the United States. In 2003, in OR Room 36 at Duke University Hospital in Durham, NC, that someone was Dr. Carl Basamania! What an honor sharing the inspiring story of Dr. Basamania, tracing a career t
Morning Brief — Friday, October 9, 2026
CMS posts the CJR-X participant list: 2,217 hospitals in a mandatory 90-day hip, knee and ankle bundle starting January 1, 2028 · SurGenTec takes an exclusive license to Allevion Medical's Vantage, a fully disposable lumbar decompression kit cleared in March as K252546 · FDA 510(k) clears Mass General's GSPE Spacer, a gentamicin-loaded UHMWPE temporary knee spacer for two-stage PJI; commercial license still pending · JBJS Yale RCT in primary THA: anterior QLB plus LFCN block vs periarticular/local infiltration, both with dual glucocorticoids, no difference in day-one opioids
Morning Brief — Thursday, October 8, 2026
Centinel Spine files publicly for a NYSE IPO under CNTL: first-half 2026 revenue $85.2M (+42%), net income $10.2M, pure-play prodisc total disc replacement · MRI2CT announces FDA 510(k) clearance for NextMR Spine, cloud software that generates 3D lumbar spine and sacrum bone images from standard MRI, entering a category MRIguidance's BoneMRI has held since 2022 · Smith+Nephew launches CARTIHEAL AGILI-C in 12 European markets ahead of the ICRS Summit in Porto, on five-year RCT data against microfracture and debridement · KSSTA, Bridge registry two-year results for Miach's BEAR implant: 5.6% ipsilateral ACL retear, none in year one, but 18.9% overall reoperation (28.0% original vs 7.5% modified technique)
Morning Brief — Wednesday, October 7, 2026
icotec's CMORE CT carbon/PEEK cervicothoracic system gets a Medicare new technology add-on payment, up to $60,905 per case, for fusion use only · Stryker names Spencer Stiles CEO effective January 1, 2027; Kevin Lobo becomes Executive Chair · Neurosurgical Focus, pooled analysis of two randomized trials (211 patients): wound dehiscence 0% after biportal endoscopic vs 8.7% after microscopic single-level lumbar decompression
Morning Brief — Tuesday, October 6, 2026
Pacira licenses EXPAREL to Molteni Farmaceutici for the EU and UK; Italy, Germany, Austria and Poland first, first commercial sale expected in 2027 · Spine RCT, 70 patients with grade III-IV spondylolisthesis: extending L4-S1 fixation to S2 or S2AI cut S1 screw breakage from 66% to zero and improved 36-month pain and ODI · Spine, Houston Methodist: screening ligamentum flavum at lumbar decompression found transthyretin amyloid in 20% of 50 selected patients
AHRMM26 Conference Podcast featuring Diana Carvajal
This week on the AHRMM26 Conference Podcast, recorded live at #AHRMM26 in San Antonio, TX, host Suzi Collins sits down with Diana Carvajal, Vice President, Healthcare & Commercial at Sierra-Cedar. Diana shares what keeps her coming back to these annual conferences and the best piece of advice she's
Morning Brief — Monday, October 5, 2026
AMA CPT Editorial Panel votes a Category I code for posterior vertebral column arthroplasty, covering Premia Spine's TOPS facet replacement, effective January 1, 2028 · J Neurosurg Spine, Washington State Spine COAP registry: intrawound antibiotics not associated with fewer surgical site infections across 24,015 instrumented spine cases · CORR target trial emulation of 4,564 Japanese periprosthetic hip fractures: no clear 30- or 90-day mortality difference between surgery within two days and surgery on days three to ten
Lead with Confidence - I Can See Clearly Now: Making Data-Informed Decisions
Trays are piling up. Staffing is stretched thin. Quality issues keep popping up. When everything feels urgent, how do you know what to tackle first? In this episode of "Lead with Confidence," Betty Casey from Surgical Solutions breaks down how data can help Sterile Processing leaders cut through the
Morning Brief — Friday, October 2, 2026
PearlMatrix P-15 peptide bone graft's Medicare new technology add-on payment goes live October 1 — TLIF use only, capped at $3,380, alongside INFUSE's $4,396.60 TLIF add-on · Tenon Medical takes the 3D-printed titanium lateral screw in its SImmetry+ SI joint fusion system to full commercial launch after a ~$1.2M alpha · JBJS: revision hip and knee volume across 17 registry countries projected to rise ~36% by 2060, led by the US and China · BMJ, UK National Joint Registry target trial emulation: robotic and conventional hips and knees show equal five-year implant survival; robotic hips had about half the malposition-related revisions
Master of Disaster: Dr. Richard Buch, Founder of Disasterplasty!!
The case went sideways, the films look ugly, and somebody needs a Surgeon with an "I can fix that" mindset. For so many years, that Surgeon has been Dr. Richard Buch! Dr. Buch is the founder of the Dallas Limb Restoration Center in Carrollton, Texas, and with more than 13,500 joint procedures behind
Morning Brief — Thursday, October 1, 2026
Terumo Neuro signs to acquire Arsenal Medical and its investigational NeoCast liquid embolic for middle meningeal artery embolization, now in a pivotal trial head to head against Onyx · Sharp HealthCare becomes a strategic equity partner in the DISC Surgery Center at Carlsbad, a spine-heavy ASC, three months after taking over Tri-City Medical Center · Two rib fixation entrants in one week: Chest Wall Innovations launches PC Fix, with an intrathoracic PEEK option, and GMReis announces 510(k) clearance for VersaLock rib and sternum plates · NEJM publishes TRIUMPH-1: retatrutide cut weight by up to 25% at 80 weeks and reduced WOMAC knee pain 1.6 to 1.8 points more than placebo in 574 participants with knee osteoarthritis
Morning Brief — Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Carlsmed appoints former ZimVie CFO Richard Heppenstall as chief financial officer and reaffirms 2026 revenue guidance of $74 to $78 million ahead of the October 1 aprevo payment policy · VB Spine receives FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for ScolimiR-3D, a six-microRNA blood test to predict adolescent idiopathic scoliosis progression · Anesthesiology: in 258,624 Ontario hip and knee arthroplasties, a new extended-release opioid prescription at discharge was associated with more persistent opioid use, readmissions and ED visits · OTA 2026 randomized trial: local aqueous tobramycin added to IV antibiotics did not reduce infection in 569 open extremity fractures
AHRMM Power Up Podcast - September '26 Updates
This is the AHRMM Power Up Podcast with Mike Schiller, hosted by Justin Poulin. Every month, we highlight trends, strategies, and solutions from the field to advance the healthcare supply chain industry. In this episode, Mike and Justin share what you need to know from September '26: FCC Proposed Ru
Morning Brief — Tuesday, September 29, 2026
FDA issues draft guidance on premarket submissions for robotically-assisted surgical devices; orthopedic (OLO) and neurological (HAW) stereotaxic systems are explicitly out of scope; comments due November 24, 2026 · Avesi Partners invests in New Age Medical, a St. Louis spine supply hub linking 85+ manufacturers, 100+ reps, 200+ hospitals/ASCs and 350+ surgeons, to fund expansion, new specialties and M&A · SI-BONE receives FDA 510(k) clearance for iFuse Granite Onyx, aimed at screw loosening at the UIV and LIV of spinal fusion constructs in low-density bone · HSS cohort at EBJIS-MSIS 2026: extended oral antibiotics after two-stage TKA reimplantation did not reduce PJI-related reoperation in 2,181 patients
Morning Brief — Monday, September 28, 2026
Spine Journal: in 18,914 matched single-level P/TLIFs, rhBMP-2 added $4,543 and 14% to the index encounter with no significant difference in readmission, revision or two-year costs · Precision Neuroscience closes an oversubscribed $250M Series D for its Layer 7 surface brain-computer interface · UPMC's CLEAR rapid exchange protocol for recalcitrant PJI: 10% failure versus 60% for historical repeat two-stage controls (EBJIS-MSIS 2026) · ICSES 2026 meta-analysis: PRP no better than placebo for lateral epicondylitis across six RCTs and 355 patients
Lead with Confidence - No More Silos: A Collaborative Approach to Surgical Care
Everyone wants safer patient care, smoother workflows, and stronger teams. So why can it still feel like the OR, Sterile Processing, and industry partners are working in completely different directions? In Episode 1 of our brand-new podcast series, "Lead with Confidence," host Bobby Parker welcomes
Morning Brief — Friday, September 25, 2026
Catalyst OrthoScience joins Redefine Surgery as founding shoulder partner, off an oversubscribed $10M surgeon-backed pre-seed round · SIGNUS USA's COSY occipitocervical-thoracic fixation system completes its first U.S. surgery · SI-BONE recalls 98 iFuse TORQ implants over a sterile-packaging failure, recommends FDA Class II classification
Morning Brief — Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Smith+Nephew clears the LANDMARK Total Knee System and completes its first cases, with a fully 3D-printed CONCELOC femur built around CORI · Enovis becomes the first industry sponsor to fund two AAOS registries at once, adding the Shoulder & Elbow Registry to AJRR through 2027 · Xenix Medical clears the Riva Anchor spinopelvic fixation system with a NanoACTIV surface, going after SI-BONE's hold on the base of long deformity constructs · Clinical Orthopaedics publishes FNF-ON8, a five-variable score for osteonecrosis after femoral neck fracture fixation that outperforms the Garden classification
AHRMM SME Podcast featuring Dr. Nicole Harris-Hollingsworth
On this episode of the AHRMM Subject Matter Expert Podcast, we sit down with Dr. Nicole Harris-Hollingsworth , Senior Vice President, Social Impact & Population Health at Hackensack Meridian Health . Dr. Nicole shares her personal connection to human trafficking and why greater awareness across heal