Smith+Nephew
CORI system
First total knee arthroplasty and two unicompartmental arthroplasties. “The future inevitably passes here”.
It was held, for the first time in the public service in Portugal, first total knee arthroplasty and two unicompartmental arthroplasties using the robotic system CORI.
The innovation, a safer process on the knee, was carried out this week by the Local Health Unit of Braga, which thus gave “a decisive step in the evolution of orthopedic surgery”, reads a statement sent to ZAP.
The two arthroplasties unicompartmental systems using the CORI robotic system were the first carried out in the National Health Service (SNS).
The CORI system, from the company Smith+Nephew, is a robotic platform which allows a highly it needs, favors prosthetic balance and promotes more effective recovery paths, aligning care activities with international standards of excellence, safety and innovation.
It’s a significant advance in treatment personalization: allows for a more rigorous positioning of the components and an exact calculation of their dimensions, making possible “a prosthesis that is more adapted to the patient we have in hand”, describes Nuno Tavares, orthopedist.
More than that: CORI gives an additional layer of security to the surgical procedure, by preventing the execution of cuts or perforations outside previously defined areas, “which reduces the margin of error and makes the procedure substantially safer”, explains the orthopedist responsible for the Knee Unit of the Orthopedics Service at ULS Braga.
Os results They are thus more consistent and reproductive, regardless of the surgeon’s level of individual experience.
This robotic surgery minimizes dependence on intuition and technical variabilitypromoting greater clinical predictability.
“The future inevitably passes here”.
