Orthopedic Services

What Is Orthopedic Services?

At Lake District Hospital,our goal is to offer advanced and value-added treatment options to our patient population. With Orthopedic Software-Guided Surgery we can deliver on that promise. Our surgeons can place knee and hip implants with products that are designed to achieve more precision and confidence. This may result in better clinical outcomes and accurate positioning of the implants. [1, 2, 3]

Why Do You Need A Joint Replacement?

Osteoarthritis is the most common reason for people to undergo a hip or knee replacement surgery. Nearly 2.9 million joint replacement procedures are performed globally each year, including more than 1.4 million hip and 1.1 million knee replacements.[4] By the year 2030, the number of total knee replacements is expected to reach about 3.5 million and hip replacements are also expected to increase dramatically to approximately 570,000.[5]

Our Technology

Orthopedic Software-Guided Surgery is powerful surgical navigation technology from Brainlab that provides our orthopedic surgeons with critical information needed to perform knee and hip surgeries with greater precision and enhanced alignment. Surgeons are able to more effectively plan orthopedic procedures and offer substantial benefits for patients.

Surgical navigation for hip and knee joint replacement offers many benefits to surgeons and their patients:

Knee

Can lead to decreased blood loss due to minimally invasive approaches [6]

Provides alignment information and helps to improve positioning of the implant components [7]

Can be a valuable tool for the implant positioning for knees with large deformities [7,8]

Enables balancing of the knee with software guidance

Hip

Helping accurate restoration of leg length and offset [9,10]

Intra-operative assessment of range of motion [11] ยท More control in minimally invasive surgery [2] ยท Supporting accurate positioning of the implants [2,3]

Lake District Hospital will use Orthopedic Software-Guided Surgery as the new standard of care, potentially reducing the risk of repeat, or revision, surgery and helping to improve the overall functionality of the new joint. Software-Guided Surgery for joint replacement is an established and proven tool used to minimize the challenges of accuracy and reproducibility, and enhance the overall functional outcomes.1

The computer software allows surgeons to plan and simulate the joint replacement before any incision has been made on the patient. The software recommends the size and position of the implant based on actual patient anatomy, aiming at proper alignment with the new prosthetic to promote natural joint movement. Physicians are able to react intra-operatively to the surgical situation by verifying what has been done after each step, potentially correcting any imperfections during the procedure.

References

  1. Lehnen K, Giesinger K, Warschkow R, Porter M, Koch E, Kuster MS. Clinical outcome using a ligament referencing technique in CAS versus conventional technique. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc 2011;19:887-892
  2. Kelley TC, Swank ML. Role of navigation in total hip arthroplasty. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2009 Feb;91 Suppl 1:153-8
  3. Gandhi R, Marchie A, Farrokhyar F, Mahomed N. Computer navigation in total hip replacement: a meta-analysis. Int Orthop. 2009 Jun;33(3):593-7
  4. Orthoworld. The Orthopedic Industry Annual Report 2012. 2012; 17.
  5. WebMD Osteoarthritis Health Center. Joint Replacement Surgery on the Rise. https://www.webmd.com/osteoarthritis/news/20060324/joint-replacement-surgery-on-rise. Accessed September 7, 2013.
  6. Conteduca F, Massai F, Iorio R, Zanzotto E, Luzon D, Ferretti A. Blood loss in computer-assisted mobile bearing total knee arthroplasty. A comparison of computer-assisted surgery with a conventional technique. Int Orthop 2009;33:1609-1613
  7. Hetaimish BM, Khan MM, Simunovic N, Al-Harbi HH, Bhandari M, Zalzal PK. Meta-analysis of navigation vs conventional total knee arthroplasty. J Arthroplasty. 2012 Jun;27(6):1177-82
  8. Blakeney WG, Khan RJ, Wall SJ. Computer-Assisted Techniques Versus Conventional Guides for Component Alignment in Total Knee Arthroplasty. A Randomized Controlled Trial. J Bone Joint Surg Am, 2011, 93, 1377-1384
  9. Manzotti A, Cerveri P, De Momi E, Pullen C, Confalonieri N. Does computer-assisted surgery benefit leg length restoration in total hip replacement? Navigation versus conventional freehand. Int Orthop. 2011 Jan;35(1):19-24
  10. Renkawitz T, Schuster T, Grifka J, Kalteis T, Sendtner E. Leg length and offset measures with a pinless femoral reference array during THA. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2010 Jul;468(7):1862-8
  11. Renkawitz T, Haimerl M, Dohmen L, Woerner M, Springorum HR, Sendtner E, Heers G, Weber M, Grifka J. Development and evaluation of an image-free computer-assisted impingement detection technique for total hip arthroplasty. Proc Inst Mech Eng H. 2012 Dec;226(12):911-8

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