2019 AAHKS annual meeting clinical highlights
Message from Robert C. Cohen
Vice President, Research & Development, and Chief Technology Officer
Joint Replacement
It is always great to see so many familiar faces at such an impactful event, the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons (AAHKS) annual meeting. The interest at our booth, Mako symposium and Mako SmartRoboticsTM lounge was a sign that surgeons want to hear about our innovation successes. The Mako SmartRoboticsTM lounge reinforced Mako’s 13+ years of clinical history and highlighted over 120 peer-reviewed publications. Many of these are clinical studies demonstrating better outcomes compared to manual for total knee, total hip and partial knee. 1-4
Additionally, our new Mako SmartRoboticsTM campaign—featuring Mako’s unique 3D CT-based planning, AccuStopTM haptic technology and insightful data analytics—was evident throughout AAHKS. The campaign builds upon these clinical experiences and shares the voice of our surgeon community. This is a great time to be in the field of orthopaedics with so much breakthrough technology converging all at once.
Whether you were present at AAHKS or didn’t have the chance to be there, here are highlights of the clinical data presented, including over 15 scientific publications on Stryker’s products and the award-winning research on Modular Dual Mobility, “Dual Mobility Bearing Articulations Results in Lower Rates of Dislocation Following Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty.”5
As always, you may visit the full 2019 AAHKS Annual Meeting ePoster library for more.
References:
1. Illgen, R; Bukowski, B; Abiola, R; Anderson, P; Chughtai, M; Khlopas, A; Mont, M. Robotic-assisted total hip arthroplasty: Outcomes at minimum two year follow up. Surgical Technology International. 2017 July 25; 30:365-372.
2. Kaynai, B; Konan, S; Tahmassebi, J; Pietrzak, JRT; Haddad, FS. Robotic-arm assisted total knee arthroplasty is associated with improved early functional recovery and reducted time to hospital discharge compared with conventional jig-based total knee arthroplasty; a prospective cohort study. The Bone and Joint Journal. 2018; 100-B:930-7.
3. Kleeblad, LJ; Borus, T; Coon, T; Dounchis, J; Nguyen, J; Pearle, A. A Midterm survivorship and patient satisfaction of robotic-arm assisted medical unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: a multicenter study. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 2018:1-8.
4. Perets, I; Walsh, JP; Close, MR; Mu, BH; Yuen, LC, Domb, BG. Robot-assisted total hip arthroplasty: clinical outcomes and complication rate. Int J Med Robot. 2018: aug; 14(4):e1912.
5. William, L; Kozick, Z; Sherman, M; Restrepo, C.; Smith, E.B; Maxwell, C. Dual Mobility Bearing Articulations Result in Lower Rates of Dislocation Following Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty.” 2019 American Academy of Hip and Knee Surgeons. Poster.
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