Chapters Transcript Video New Robotic-Arm Tech for Knee Replacements Offers More Precision, Faster Recovery Miami Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Institute was the first institution in Miami Day to invest in this technology and the first ones to be doing totally replacement with a make a robot system. It allows you to personalize the surgery to the patients. Real anatomy in order to do a robotic or a make a knee replacement. You first get a CT scan of the patient and what you do is once you're in the operating room, you marry the CT scan into the surgical field and it allows you to do the surgery virtually. First you do the surgery virtually in the computer and once you're content with the balancing and the bony cuts, then you bring in the robot to make your bony cuts in the surgical field. What the robot allows us to do is to collect all this information and determine how the knee replacement is gonna perform over time based on individual patient characteristics. So in the future will be doing knee replacement more algorithmic lee and know exactly beforehand where each patient needs to be at, from their knee replacement standpoint, I think also from a teaching standpoint, is a very valuable tool to teach our fellow and residents, because it's providing in tropical feedback that the fellow and the residents can learn in the in the course of their training. What the research has told us so far is that the accuracy is there, So the bony cut accuracy and the soft tissue balancing uh, of the virtual surgery is there. And what we're finding with early outcome studies is that patients are recovering faster and they're happier with the results of the knee replacement when they use the Meiko robotic system. Created by
