The UAE-based, Dr Ved P Goswami, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, FRCS MS MCh Orth (UK), has performed the first computer-assisted shoulder replacement surgery in the.
UAE-based Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Dr Ved P. Goswami, FRCS, MS, MCh Orth (UK), has performed the first computer-assisted shoulder replacement surgery in the Middle East, using a new technology allowing live navigation of the operative site.
The technology, ExactechGPS Total Shoulder Application, provides the surgeon with a real-time 3D computer model of a patient’s shoulder during surgery. It does this by combining CT scan images with data from instruments mounted with tiny infrared cameras. The software allows the surgeon to guide a bone drill mounted with an infrared camera to the exact location plotted out during pre-op planning and determine drilling depth, screw placement and the ability to adjust the pre-op surgical plan, if necessary. The cameras communicate with a computer tablet that displays a digital model of the patient’s shoulder, showing a drill location like a dot on a smartphone’s map app.
The software allows surgeons to virtually plan the operation using a
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EQS Group-Ad-hoc: Medacta Group SA / Key word(s): Regulatory Approval
Medacta Announces the Registration of the Knee, Shoulder and Spine Applications of its NextAR Augmented Reality Surgical Platform in Europe, and the Shoulder Application to the American Market
27-May-2021 / 19:00 CET/CEST
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Medacta Announces the Registration of the Knee, Shoulder and Spine Applications of its NextAR Augmented Reality Surgical Platform in Europe, and the Addition of the Shoulder Application to the American Market
- Medacta s Knee, Shoulder and Spine Applications received CE-marking, and Medacta s Shoulder Application also obtained FDA-clearance.