The first spinal surgery pathology robot training center in Jiangsu was inaugurated Monday morning, following the completion of the first spinal orthopedic surgery assisted by pathfinder robots in China last April. In the future, more grassroots spine surgeons will be trained to greatly improve the success rate of spinal surgery.
At 10 am, the orthopedic surgeon at the Nanjing Gulou Hospital is performing a scoliosis surgery for a 27-year-old girl. Different from the past, when the surgeon was in the spinal fixation stage, the doctor used a hand-held pathfinder robot for real-time detection when placing a nail into the spine.
Spinal surgery is a difficult and risky procedure in surgical systems. This new type of pathfinder robot uses the difference in bone density between different bones to determine the distance, and the depth and position through the sound, which is equivalent to a miniature surgical "navigation device".
Director Qiu said that the space between the nail and the spinal cord is only one millimeter. In the spinal surgery, the doctor needs to implant dozens of nails on the spine. The biggest risk is that it may penetrate the spine and destroy the spinal cord.
Portable pathfinder robots not only help doctors accurately nail and shorten the operation time, but also significantly reduce the dose of ionizing radiation that doctors and patients receive in the operating room. Due to its convenience and mature technology, this equipment is especially suitable for use in primary hospitals, and it is also suitable for the improvement of surgical skills for young doctors.
With the establishment of the Spinal Surgery Robot Training Center, spinal surgery in the future is expected to be done with an accuracy rate of 99% or even 100%.
