Apex Medical is proud of the role Apex Arachnoid Knives™ played in the first ever excimer laser assisted bypass surgery to be performed in the United States as part of an emergency single-use approval by the FDA. Read about the surgery here.
Apex Medical donated 30 Apex Arachnoid Knives™ to the successful series of surgeries to separate conjoined twins at Montefiore Medical Center. Read about that surgery here.
See Apex Arachnoid Knives™ in action! The giant ACOMM Artery Aneurysm Flash video below was supplied by David J. Langer, M.D., Director of Cerebrovascular Surgery at St. Luke's-Roosevelt and Long Island College Hospitals.
Who Uses Apex Arachnoid Knives™?
Apex Arachnoid Knives™ are used by a number of well known hospitals and surgeons, including:
• Albany Medical Center: Alan Boulos, M.D.
• Albert Einstein College of Medicine: David J. Langer, M.D.
“I won’t do a bypass without Apex knives.”
- David Langer, M.D.
• Barnes Jewish Hospital: Ralph Dacey, M.D.
• Cape Cod Healthcare: Patrick J. Murray, M.D.
• Cape Fear Regional Medical Center: Richard Osenbach, M.D.
• Children’s Hospital of Oakland: Peter P. Sun, M.D.
“I use the Apex knife for dissecting the cranial nerves and vessels off tumor capsule. It also allows me to sharply identify the dorsal nerve root entry zone in tethered and retethered spinal cord cases.”
- Peter P. Sun, M.D.
• Chippenham & Johnston Willis Hospitals: William R. White, M.D.
• Chippenham & Johnston Willis Hospitals: K. Singh Sahni, M.D.
• Christiana Care: Kennedy Yalamanchili, M.D.
• Cleveland Clinic
• Detroit Medical Center: Murali Guthikonda, M.D., F.A.C.S.
• Gundersen Lutheran Hospital
• Lancaster General Hospital
• Massachusetts General Hospital: Christopher S. Ogilvy, M.D.
• Massachusetts General Hospital: Robert S. Carter, M.D., Ph.D.
• Mayo Clinic Florida: Ricardo Hanel, M.D.
• Mayo Clinic Phoenix: Richard S. Zimmerman, M.D.
• Mission St. Joseph's Hospital: Eric L. Rhoton, M.D., F.A.C.S.
• Montefiore Medical Center: James T. Goodrich, M.D.
• Mount Clemens General Hospital
• Nassau Health Care Corp, Inc.: Ramin Rak, M.D.
• Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH
• Oakland Childern's Hospital: Peter P. Sun, M.D.
• Overlook Hospital: Ronald Benitez, M.D.
• Queen’s Medical Center, Honolulu, HI
• Roosevelt Hospital: Chandranath Sen, M.D.
• Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center
• Saint Francis Medical Center
• Sparrow Hospital
• Swedish Medical Center: Lee E. Krauth, M.D.
• Temple University Hospital: Christopher M. Loftus, M.D.
• Temple University Hospital: Jack Jallo, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S.
• University Hospitals of Brooklyn: Ethan Benardete, M.D.
• University Hospitals of Cleveland: Warren R. Selman, M.D.
• University of California, San Francisco: Michael T. Lawton, M.D.
“When it comes to making the arteriotomy to start a bypass, there is nothing better than Apex knives, especially when doing a deep bypass.”
- Michael T. Lawton, M.D.
• University of Illinois at Chicago: Fady T. Charbel, M.D., F.A.C.S.
• University of Illinois at Chicago: G. Michael Lemole, Jr., M.D.
• University of Kansas: John A. Grant, M.B., B.Ch., F.R.C.S.C., F.A.C.S.
• University of Kansas: Ania Pollack, M.D.
• University of Medicine & Dentistry NJ: Charles J. Prestigiacomo, M.D.
• University of Michigan: B. Gregory Thompson, M.D.
• University of Pennsylvania: M. Sean Grady, M.D.
• University of Pennsylvania: Eric L. Zager, M.D.
• University of South Florida: Harry R. Van Loveren, M.D.
“The Apex knife is the best tool for opening the arachnoid of the Sylvian fissure and for separating cranial nerves from a tumor surface microscopically.”
- Harry R. Van Loveren, M.D.
• University of Virginia: Neal F. Kassell, M.D.
• University of Virginia: Aaron S. Dumont, M.D.
• University of Washington: Laligam N. Sekhar, M.D.
• University of Washington: Louis J. Kim, M.D.
• Vanderbilt University Hospital: Reid C. Thompson, M.D.
• Washington University of St. Louis: Gregory Zipfel, M.D.