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brAIn™ Shoulder Positioning

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Authorized purpose: brAIn Shoulder Positioning assists preoperative planning and visualization for primary total shoulder replacement by segmenting and measuring shoulder CT anatomy and supporting manual implant planning.

Quantification and segmentation
Evidence status: each field states its source quality, applicability, and review date. Research pending, information not established, and vendor documentation pending remain distinct outcomes.

Product overview

Start with the essentials

Authorized purpose: brAIn Shoulder Positioning assists preoperative planning and visualization for primary total shoulder replacement by segmenting and measuring shoulder CT anatomy and supporting manual implant planning.

Overview status: Source-reviewed overview

Clinical takeaway

Clinical role: brAIn Shoulder Positioning assists preoperative planning and visualization for primary total shoulder replacement by segmenting and measuring shoulder CT anatomy and supporting manual implant planning.

Evidence takeaway

Evidence from the reviewed source record: K252665 FDA decision material establishes the labeled use, workflow, inputs, outputs, and limitations for brAIn Shoulder Positioning. No exact-submission clinical performance metric is promoted without a complete source table and version-scoped endpoint.

Clinical details

What this tool is for

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Exact purpose
brAIn Shoulder Positioning assists preoperative planning and visualization for primary total shoulder replacement by segmenting and measuring shoulder CT anatomy and supporting manual implant planning.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Intended users
Shoulder surgeons and other qualified healthcare professionals.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Care setting and population
Hospitals and clinics performing preoperative primary total shoulder replacement planning.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Workflow role
Patient-specific shoulder segmentation, measurement, and interactive implant-planning support.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Required input
Patient shoulder CT DICOM images and patient information uploaded to the application.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Output and human action
Scapula and humerus segmentations, pre- and post-plan measurements, implant planning views, distalization and lateralization values, and planning screenshots or summaries.
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Limitations
The FDA labeling describes an information tool for planning and visualization, not autonomous surgical planning. Surgeons must review and manually plan anatomic or reverse total shoulder replacement.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Regulatory identity

FDA record and catalog context

The FDA listing establishes the regulatory identity. It does not by itself establish local workflow fit, pricing, security, or performance in your environment.

FDA submission
K252665
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Modality
CT/CTA
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Anatomy
Shoulder, scapula, and humerus
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Clearance type
510(k)
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Decision date
2025-10-20
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FDA status
FDA-cleared
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Implementation

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Integration
The FDA package describes upload of CT DICOM data and patient information to a cloud-based web application with a three-dimensional interactive planning viewer.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Deployment and data flow
The FDA package describes a cloud-based web application; current hosting responsibility, security, availability, retention, and site configuration remain unknown.
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Security and privacy
Not established in reviewed sources
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Public materials reviewed for this exact submission do not establish the complete security posture. Request data-flow, identity, audit, encryption, retention, remote-access, vulnerability-management, backup, and incident-response evidence.

Training and support
Use by shoulder surgeons and other qualified healthcare professionals. Follow the exact labeling, local training, supervision, and escalation requirements.
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Monitoring and change control
Monitor labeled population, acquisition quality, exclusions, reviewer overrides, failures, and downstream workflow effects for K252665.
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Release and scope verification

Map installed build, options, population, anatomy, inputs, outputs, and enabled functions to K252665.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-04
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Deployment boundary

The FDA package describes a cloud-based web application; current hosting responsibility, security, availability, retention, and site configuration remain unknown.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-04
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Interoperability acceptance

The FDA package describes upload of CT DICOM data and patient information to a cloud-based web application with a three-dimensional interactive planning viewer.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-04
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Clinical acceptance

Test labeled population, acquisition quality, exclusions, failed inputs, reviewer overrides, and downstream effects for K252665.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-04
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Economic evaluation

Exact-product price, implementation cost, reimbursement, and total-cost evidence remain to be obtained; do not infer them from FDA clearance.

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Lifecycle monitoring

Monitor labeling, software version, complaints, recalls, failed inputs, overrides, and postmarket signals against the exact submission and installed configuration.

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Evidence

Performance evidence

Metrics are shown only when they are tied to a source, endpoint, population, and tested product version. Candidate literature without exact product and version linkage is not shown as product evidence.

Evidence summary
K252665 FDA decision material establishes the labeled use, workflow, inputs, outputs, and limitations for brAIn Shoulder Positioning. No exact-submission clinical performance metric is promoted without a complete source table and version-scoped endpoint.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-04
Reported sensitivity
Not applicable
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Do not generalize an endpoint across populations, thresholds, versions, or workflows; use only exact evidence.metrics records.

Reported specificity
Not applicable
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Do not generalize an endpoint across populations, thresholds, versions, or workflows; use only exact evidence.metrics records.

No contextualized exact-version metric has completed evidence review. Regulatory-document values, when available, are shown above with their limitations.

K252665 FDA evidence package for brAIn™ Shoulder Positioning

  • DesignFDA 510(k) decision evidence and product verification for the exact submission.
  • PopulationShoulder, scapula, and humerus
  • Scopeexact submission
  • Tested versionbrAIn Shoulder Positioning
  • IndependenceSponsor or vendor study

K252665

FDA-submitted evidence for the exact decision; it is not independent clinical validation and does not establish local production qualification.

Source

Costs and setup

Budget and ongoing governance

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Pricing and total cost
Not established in reviewed sources
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  • Exact FDA submission
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No public list price or commercial contract for the exact submission and version was identified.

Reimbursement and coding
Not established in reviewed sources
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  • Exact FDA submission
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No exact-product payer coverage or reimbursement determination was identified in reviewed public material.

No product-specific code

No exact-product reimbursement determination identified in reviewed public material

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · United States

This public-policy review is not a coverage determination. Verify payer, site-of-service, coding, and local value assumptions independently.

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Safety and lifecycle

Postmarket record

Recall and adverse-event records are shown only after product matching. Adverse-event reports do not establish incidence or causality.

Postmarket safety review
No record matched K252665 by exact native submission identifier in the 2026-09-02 openFDA snapshot; this does not exclude product-family, later-version, or adverse-event information.
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Research record

What has been checked

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Human reviewedStatus
2026-09-04Last searched
27Fields reviewed
10Source classes checked
0Screened PubMed leads
0Screened trial leads
0Unreviewed FDA recall leads

The snapshot contained no PubMed or ClinicalTrials.gov candidates; no evidence was promoted. The current discovery snapshot contains 0 PubMed and 0 ClinicalTrials.gov candidate records; its dated, count-matched human screening remains current. Unlinked candidates remain quarantined. Native FDA recall identifiers produced 0 postmarket candidate records; 0 have been reviewed (0 published, 0 rejected) and 0 remain unreviewed.

Candidate leads were screened against the exact product and tested version. Unlinked records remain quarantined.

Source classes: fda ai list, fda decision summary, fda decision material, peer reviewed literature, clinical trial registry, reimbursement policy, fda device recall, pubmed, clinical trials, openfda device recall

Sources & history

How this profile was documented

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Source ledger

  1. FDA 510(k) decision material K252665: brAIn™ Shoulder Positioning

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Published 2025-10-20 - Accessed 2026-09-04

    Scope: identity, submission_linkage, modality, anatomy, clinical_use, intended_users, care_setting, workflow_role, input, output, limitations, evidence

  2. Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Medical Devices

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Accessed 2026-08-31

    Scope: regulatoryIdentity, modalityContext

  3. PubMed biomedical literature index

    U.S. National Library of Medicine - Accessed 2026-09-01

    Scope: evidenceDiscovery

  4. ClinicalTrials.gov study registry

    U.S. National Library of Medicine - Accessed 2026-09-01

    Scope: evidenceDiscovery, studyStatus

  5. Medicare Coverage Database

    Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - Accessed 2026-09-01

    Scope: coverage, codingContext

  6. openFDA Device Recall API

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Accessed 2026-09-02

    Scope: recallDiscovery, nativeSubmissionMatching

Research history

  1. K252665 FDA decision

    Regulatory record

    510(k)

  2. Source-review record updated

    Research record

    human reviewed

  3. Reader overview source-reviewed

    Editorial review

    Source-reviewed editorial overlay

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