CYDAR Limited announced its first patient treatment success in a strategic partnership with Medtronic, a global leader in medical technology, services and solutions. The partnership, which spans 40 locations in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe, includes the integration of the company’s proprietary Cydar Maps software with Medtronic’s services and case support to improve patient care and medical professional efficiency by introducing unique artificial intelligence (“AI”) solutions. for the clinical environment.The first patients in the pilot program were treated with Cydar Maps at Edward Hospital in Illinois by vascular and endovascular surgeon Dr. George Pontikis, MD.

Cydar Maps is the first product from Cydar’s advanced AI technology platform and is changing the way information is delivered to doctors performing image-guided minimally invasive surgery (“MIS”), simplifying the complexities of operating theaters in leading hospitals around the world. Cydar Maps generates 3D soft tissue maps of patients to support and integrate preoperative planning, intraoperative guidance, and postoperative endovascular MIS monitoring, using AI to update maps throughout the patient’s journey. Cydar Maps has been proven to provide a number of benefits, including halving radiation exposure for patients and clinical teams, simplifying clinical workflows, and increasing physician confidence, which in turn can significantly reduce procedure time.

It is also hoped that this pilot program will provide information for further development of Cydar Maps, including predictive analytics to support optimal procedure planning, based on the use of AI to compare patient anatomy and procedure outcomes from global data sets.