Satnavs aren’t limited alone to guiding motorists through roads and streets. The Orthopilot is a testament that makers of the devices are pursuing satnavs practicability in medicine and human health concerns, particularly to surgeons who perform knee replacements. In UK alone, close to 60,000 people need knee replacement each year.
The Orthopilot is a technological gadget now employed by doctors performing joint surgeries such as knees and hips replacement that employs GPS technology. Developed in the United Kingdom, the Orthopilot helps surgeons align artificial knee joints, making the traditional method close to being a thing of the past.
While regular knee operations are more of guess-work and requires extensive experience, the new technology guides the surgeons in crucial operations in surgery such as joints alignment. When a joint replacement is out of line even by the smallest millimeter, the surgery is bound to be a failure in the future years. This is because the miscalculation on the alignment will put a load on the artificial knee and the bone itself, subjecting the area and bones involved to heavy stress and wear.
Also, the low 80% success rate of regular knee replacement procedure is quite an alarming number, and the repeat operations are also high, which is even ringing more alarm bells.
But what used to be done with the naked eye, the surgeons can now do so more effectively with the Orthopilot. With over 95% reported success rates, surgeons are saved the taxing effort of perfecting every single operation the old way. With the help of computer guides, surgeons can now perform transplants and operations on joints with remarkable accuracy.
The Orthopilot works by providing from its software the maps of alignment and anatomy of the knee and other joints. The information is sent to the surgeon so that in performing the implant, exact orientations required are met. Hence, repeat operations are cut drastically and health risks are avoided.
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