The HPA Group performed this Tuesday, April 11, the first robotic knee prosthesis surgery at the Hospital de Gambelas, in Faro.
In a press release, the HPA Health Group says that «it has a new robot for surgery in arthroplasties of the lower limb, which allows the improvement of the operative technique in the knee prosthesis and, in the future, in the hip prosthesis».
"Oh robot used drives an intelligent milling cutter with infra millimeter precision. Controlled by the surgeon, it reduces the possibility of error and helps with the placement of the implant, reproducing almost entirely the patient's original knee», he adds.
Knee and hip arthroplasties are “one of the most rewarding procedures for both the patient and the orthopedic surgeon. They make up around 10% of the 2000 annual interventions carried out by the Orthopedics Group (GO) of the HPA and have been one of the areas where the GO has invested most in technical and scientific terms for 12 years”.
According to João Paulo Sousa, coordinator of GO HPA, «we believe that with this technological option, precise and safe, we will be able to improve our clinical and functional results: reduce the number of dissatisfied patients and, probably, shorten the length of hospital stay and recovery, allowing a safer return to activities of daily living, as well as increasing the longevity of the prosthesis».
All this effort has the ultimate goal of improving the results offered to patients. In a recent satisfaction analysis in which 711 patients who underwent knee arthroplasty were evaluated, asking them to rate the level of satisfaction from one to ten, 48% rated it ten and 90% rated it seven or higher. seven.
Faced with these results, João Paulo Sousa states that «continuous improvement is part of our mission, which is why we have set a new goal: to reduce the 7% who classified their satisfaction at levels below six. The determinants of obtaining an excellent result, a good result or a bad result are multifactorial and we do not fully know or master them».
In orthopedics, “as in many areas of medicine, the contribution of new technologies has been precious and growing. An example of this is the PSI system (Patient Specific Instrumentation), in which specific and personalized cutting blocks are executed for each patient, a system that the GO HPA has been using for over 10 years, having become a reference center», says the HPA.
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