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Hand-Healthy Hand Scrubs - December 2013 - Subscribe to Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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OSE_1312_part3_Layout 1 12/5/13 2:03 PM Page 133 PRODUCT News Great ideas for your OR Robotic-Assisted Partial Knee Replacement Hand-held sculpting tool lets surgeons precisely resurface bone. R USER FRIENDLY obotics have The Navio orthopedic come to partial surgical system features a hand-held knee replacebone-sculpting tool. ments, which "are unforgiving of even a very subtle amount of misalignment or imbalance," says Jess Lonner, MD, one of the first surgeons to use the Navio system from Blue Belt Technologies (bluebelttech.com/products) to perform a partial knee replacement. "This device reduces variability, enhances the precision with which we can prepare the bone and dramatically improves the ability to balance soft tissues." In treating a patient presenting with medial osteoarthritis, Dr. Lonner used Navio to create a surgical plan, resurface the patient's diseased bone, and implant a prosthesis to restore function to the patient's knee and reduce the pain associated with osteoarthritis. "It's long been known that partial knee replacements fare far better when they're aligned well and balanced well," says Dr. Lonner, associate professor of orthopaedic surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and attending orthopaedic surgeon at the Rothman Institute in Philadelphia, Pa. "But they can be very challenging for surgeons who don't do many. It's hard to become proficient. Even in the hands of a proficient surgeon, it's difficult to be as precise as you'd like with conventional methods." D E C E M B E R 2013 | O U T PAT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E 1 3 3

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