Public Network poster news reporter Zheng Yang Qingdao reported
On the morning of June 23, the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University officially launched the Mako robot-assisted total knee replacement surgery, and the team of Professor Yu Tengbo, vice president of the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, vice president of the Orthopedic Hospital and director of the Department of Sports Medicine, successfully took the lead in completing the first Case of Mako Robot-assisted Knee Replacement Surgery in Shandong Province. It is reported that vice president Yu Tengbo, Wang Yingzhen, Zhang Haining and other experts and professors will complete more than 10 cases of the robot operation in 2-3 days.
It is understood that Mako robot-assisted total knee replacement surgery can achieve 3D intelligent modeling based on CT, allowing doctors to formulate personalized surgical plans before surgery. At the same time, dynamic adjustment is provided during surgery to balance soft tissue tension and maximize the precision and personalization of knee surgery. The robot adopts innovative and efficient pendulum saw osteotomy, realizes millimeter-level precise control and brake protection during the operation, escorts the operator, and truly realizes minimally invasive and refined surgery.
The orthopedic hospital team led by Yu Tengbo took the lead in completing the first Case of Mako Robot-assisted Hip Replacement Surgery in the province in December last year, and has successfully implemented more than 40 cases of Mako Robot-assisted Total Hip Replacement surgery in just half a year, all of which have obtained satisfactory surgical results, and the surgical team has accumulated rich experience in robot-assisted joint replacement surgery.
At the launching ceremony, Yu Tengbo said that "precision medicine", "artificial intelligence", "rapid rehabilitation" are important development directions in today's medical and orthopedic fields, and Professor Yu Tengbo hopes that with the assistance of Mako orthopedic robots, joint replacement surgery will be truly personalized, precise and minimally invasive, and more benefits to patients with orthopedic diseases in the province.
The Mako robot-assisted total knee replacement surgery system launched this time was officially listed in China in May this year, and the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University is the sixth hospital in China to install and apply this advanced AI surgical robot, which marks another big leap forward in ai robot-assisted orthopedic surgery of Qingdao University Affiliated Hospital, and continues to lead the robot-assisted joint replacement surgery in the province.
"The first patients will be operated on starting this morning, and about 15 or so will be done. Most of them are elderly patients, some of whom are severely deformed, and it is difficult to achieve 100% accuracy with the experience of doctors, but almost 100% accuracy can be achieved with the assistance of preoperative planning, intraoperative monitoring, and autonomous surgery of Mako robots. Yu Tengbo said that at about 9:00 a.m., Professor Yu Tengbo's team underwent surgery on two 80-year-olds and a 60-year-old patient, both of whom suffered from osteoarthritis, and daily walking became a problem. Yu Tengbo, Zhang Haining, Wang Yingzhen and other experts first carefully confirmed the patient's preoperative plan, performed knee CT scan and three-dimensional reconstruction for the patient before the operation, and imported the information into the Mako robot system, through computer simulation calculations, in advance for the patient to develop a personalized and precise preoperative plan, including the size of the prosthesis, the bone grinding area and the angle and position of the placement, etc., precise positioning during the operation, with the assistance of the robotic arm to achieve a one-step precision grinding, to avoid repeated osteotomy and excessive release, Two Mako robotic assisted knee replacement surgeries were completed very smoothly in the morning alone. The third robot-assisted total knee replacement surgery of Wang Yingzhen, director of joint surgery, followed closely behind and was successfully completed, and the patient felt good after the operation.
Launched in the United States in 2006, the Mako Smart Robot assists doctors in total hip replacement, total knee replacement and single condyle replacement. In China, Mako Intelligent Robot introduced a clinical trial of monocondyle replacement surgery in 2016, and was officially approved for total hip replacement surgery applications in 2018. In just over 2 years, Mako has covered more than 30 hospitals and completed more than 2,000 surgeries.
Driven by cutting-edge technologies such as Mako intelligent robots, the Department of Orthopedics of Qingdao University Affiliated Hospital is moving from the era of artificial experience to the era of artificial intelligence, and digitalization, precision, minimally invasive, and personalized have become an irreversible trend of change. Today, the successful listing of mako intelligent robot total knee replacement application will further accelerate the process of intelligent and refined joint replacement surgery. It is believed that with the mature application and popularization of the project technology, more patients will benefit from it.