UKH Styria – Kalwang: Successfully implanted 1,000 knee prostheses with robot support

With the so -called “Mako Smartrobotics” robot, which has been in use in Auva UKH Styria since 2022, 1,000 knee prostheses have now been successfully implanted.

“The AUVA also stands for the greatest possible quality in medical care and offers this patient: inside as part of innovative surgical concepts in medicine” also “according to AUVA general director Alexander Bernart.

Artificial joints are among the most common operations in the field of orthopedics. In order to make this joint replacement even more individual, more personalized and safer, the UKH Styria team implements Christian chamber country At the Kalwang location on a unique, robot-poor-assisted surgical procedure across Auva. With this technical innovation, the surgeons are supported and can therefore operate even more precisely and gentle.

In a first step, an exact image of the joint and the adjacent bones is created with the help of a computer tomography (CT). On this basis, a virtual 3D model of the individual anatomy is created, e.g. the affected knee. This imaging enables very exact, three -dimensional planning on the virtual bone model. In this step, the bone cuts and the implant positioning are planned and defined by the surgeon: on the inside.

On the basis of this data that is transmitted to the software of the robot arm and processed there, the knee prosthesis is now placed individually, so that bones, ligaments and soft tissues are spared in the best possible way. This electronic assistance helps the surgeon: to keep the previously defined surgical path with an accuracy of 0.5 mm and 0.5 degrees. Since the surgeon saws and instruments are led: freedom is preserved to make an intraoperative corrections if this is necessary due to the real circumstances. Due to the virtual monitoring, every move is perfect and accurate – and thus also the prosthesis in a precise position and orientation. At the same time, the individual anatomy and soft parts are spared at a maximum.

“The operation is made unchanged by doctors: inside, the robot arm and the integrated software support the exact instrument management and thus enable an even higher precision in order to achieve the individual operating goals and a reduction in postoperative pain.” Of course, this only works through the great cooperation of all of our professional groups and their extraordinary engagement – many thanks for this! We are at the pulse of time “according to Christian Kammerlander, medical director of UKH Styria with the locations Kalwang and Graz.