The Personalised Guided Surgery System, ExactechGPS® is an advanced surgical technology that offers an alignment guided and informed in real time during knee arthroplasty.
It took place, in IMED Valencia hospital, the first surgical seminars about knee arthroplasty assisted by computer ExactechGPS®, organized by the Orthopedics Service of the hospital, with Dr. Eduardo Sánchez Alepuz as head of the Service, and by Exactech Medical Education as technology provider.
The expert surgeon invited was Dr. José Blanco, from the Obispo Polanco hospital in Teruel, that will focus its lecture on the GAP balanced in flexion and extension in knee arthroplasty.
During the seminar two cases of knee arthroplasty with GPS were studied, that the audience followed, from the approach till the pins placement and later guided by gps, thanks to the streaming connection and the explanations of Dr. José Blanco.
Personalised guided surgery: Software ExactechGPS
The Personalised Guided Surgery System, ExactechGPS® is an advanced surgical technology that offers an alignment guided and informed in real time during knee arthroplasty. Adapted to the surgeons preferences and as the patient indicates, ExactechGPS® is an important added value to the surgical equipment, achieving reproducibility with an efficient solution and affordable.
Knee arthroplasty
Surgical replacement of the joints surfaces of a knee by other artificial parts is due normally to joint’s wear caused by swelling diseases, degenerative or trauma, that disrupt severely the joint’s biomechanical. Pain that doesn’t disappear and joint’s stiffness, is one of the main symptoms that requires prosthesis implant.