Spinal Robot

The QEII Health Sciences Centre is home to the first spinal surgery robot of its kind in Atlantic Canada, called MAZOR™ X Stealth Edition. The QEII recently became the first centre in Canada to perform the first patient procedure using the robot.

The QEII Foundation is actively raising funds to support our $3-million fundraising goal to fully fund Canada’s first spinal robot technology for patient care and contribute to the leading-edge research and evaluation that will accompany it. Access to this game-changing technology would not be possible without donor support.

Donor generosity allows our partners at Nova Scotia Health and the QEII Health Sciences Centre to accelerate the purchase of the most advanced technology the market has to offer – like the MAZOR™ X Stealth Edition – and introduce it into clinical care much quicker.

This $3-million project is part of the QEII Foundation’s $100-million We Are campaign to transform health care through the QEII Health Sciences Centre.

This technology combines an innovative robotic arm and an advanced surgical navigation system to help perform some of the most precise, personalized surgeries possible.

Benefits can include:

• shorter hospital stays, fewer infections, less blood loss and quicker recoveries;
• less pain and reliance on pain medication after surgery;
• reduced need for revisions, meaning fewer patients may require a second surgery in the future and decreasing demands on the healthcare system;
• recruiting and retaining top talent in spinal surgery and advanced robotics;
• igniting world-leading research in collaboration with industry partners and other Canadian centres; and much, much more.

Watch our video to see the technology in action during a recent training session with QEII surgical teams.