A recent study using Mazor Robotics’ Renaissance Guided System suggested spine surgery can be safer through robotic systems instead of free hand.
Here’s what you need to know:
1. Researches enrolled 379 patients into the study. Of the total, 287 underwent surgery using a robot-guided arm and 92 with a fluoroscopic-guided arm.
2. At follow-up visits, researchers found 9.7 percent of patients who underwent robotic surgery experience complications as compared to 38 percent of the fluoroscopic group.
3. A little over 1 percent of patients who underwent robotic surgery needed revision surgery as compared to 4.3 percent of patients who underwent fluoroscopic surgery.
4. The chance of complications was also five times greater during fluoroscopic-guided surgery.
5. Robotic-guided surgery also reduced fluoroscopy exposure time by 78 percent, “helping offset the patient’s exposure during the pre-operative CT scan required for planning the robotic surgery,” study
authors concluded.