Open AccessRobotic-Assisted Knee Arthroplasty (RAKA): The Technique, the Technology and the Transition
Author(s) -
Vaibhav Bagaria,
Omkar Sadigale,
Prashant P Pawar,
Ravi K. Bashyal,
Ajinkya Achalare,
Murali Poduval
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of orthopaedics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.434
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1998-3727
pISSN - 0019-5413
DOI - 10.1007/s43465-020-00088-5
Subject(s) - robotics , artificial intelligence , arthroplasty , medicine , haptic technology , component (thermodynamics) , robot , medical physics , computer science , surgery , physics , thermodynamics
There has been an exponential increase in knee arthroplasty over the past 20 years. This has led to a quest for improvement in outcomes and patient satisfaction. While the last decade of last century proved to be the decade for Computer-Assisted Surgery (CAS) or Computer Navigation wherein the technology demonstrated a clear benefit in terms of improving mechanical axis alignment and component positioning, this decade is likely to belong to Robotics. Robotics adds an independent dimension to the benefits that CAS offers. The article deals with the generation of robots, technical steps in robotics, advantages and downsides of robotics and way forward in the field of knee arthroplasty.