What is Stryker navigation system?
The Stryker Orthopedic Surgical Navigation System provides computer-assisted navigation technology using tracking devices that provide our surgeons with a fuller picture of a patient’s joint mechanics.
What is spine navigation?
Navigation assisted spine surgery is a group of technologies, which allow the surgeon to access real-time, three dimensional and virtual images of the spine in relation to the surgical instruments intraoperatively. Spine navigation was initially used to improve the accuracy of pedicle screw placement.
How are computers used in surgery?
Sometimes referred to as robotic surgery, RAS devices enable the surgeon to use computer and software technology to control and move surgical instruments through one or more tiny incisions in the patient’s body (minimally invasive) for a variety of surgical procedures.
How does guided image surgery work?
Similar to a car or mobile Global Positioning System (GPS), image guided surgery systems use cameras or electromagnetic fields to capture and relay the patient’s anatomy and the surgeon’s precise movements in relation to the patient, to computer monitors in the operating room.
What is 7D navigation?
7D Surgical’s Machine-Vision technology is similar to that of self-driving cars. It utilizes special cameras to analyze surface anatomy in just seconds using only visible light. This creates a full-color 3D image reconstruction consisting of hundreds of thousands of data points used for surgical navigation.
What is a surgical navigation system?
Surgical navigation technology allows surgeons to precisely track instrument positions and then project the instrument position onto the preoperative imaging data. This sophisticated technology is often compared to GPS tracking, which allows travelers to see their position on a map.
What machines do surgeons use?
Mechanical cutters (scalpels, lancets, trocars, Harmonic scalpel, rongeurs etc.) Dilators and specula, for access to narrow passages or incisions. Suction tips and tubes, for removal of bodily fluids.
What is the purpose of Image-Guided Surgery?
Image-guided surgery helps surgeons perform safer and less invasive procedures and has become a recognized standard of care in managing disorders including cranial, otorhinolaryngology, spine, orthopedic, and cardiovascular.
What is MRI stealth protocol?
The STEALTH System uses a patient’s CT scans and MRI scans to maintain a continuous spatial relationship between the patient’s anatomy and the patient’s scan images during the surgical procedure using three-dimensional digitizers and powerful computer workstations.