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Improving
the speed, accuracy and reproducibility of joint replacement, ensuring
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Acrobot
provides precision surgical systems for computer-assisted 3D planning,
surgical navigation and surgeon-controlled robotic surgery.
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Modeller
takes CT scan data and generates an accurate 3D representation of the
patient’s anatomy.
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Planner
allows the surgeon to determine the optimum size required and the exact
position to place the components of the joint replacement by creating a
patient specific ‘Patient Plan’.
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Navigator is a
unique non-optical / non-electromagnetic navigation system,
which uses two digital arms to track the patient. One arm tracks the
bone and the other the instrument. The previously created ‘Patient
Plan’ is loaded into Navigator which with its unique tracking system
provides pin-point accuracy in the optimum placement of the implant
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Sculptor allows the
surgeon to accurately sculpt bone
away to create the recesses required for component implantation. The
‘Patient Plan’ is uploaded into Sculptor and using Acrobot’s patent
protected ‘Active Constraint’ technology a high speed burr allows
precise targeted bone removal in a safe and controlled manner.
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The overall goal of
Acrobot’s
technologies is to provide:
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In
order to enhance clinical outcomes, augment (but not replacing) surgeon
skills, facilitate bone conservation and increase productivity.
When
joint replacement components are implanted accurately and successfully,
the patient’s post-operative recovery time can be reduced and
discomfort and complications can be minimised, which should then lead
to improved quality of life for the patient.
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