Yokohama City University Hospital has introduced the "Mako System", the first approved robotic arm surgery support system in Japan. From October 2020, for the first time in public university hospitals nationwide, surgery for total hip joint replacement and total knee joint replacement was started with insurance treatment.
A robotic arm is generally an "arm of a machine that works in place of a human hand", and the robotic arm introduced this time is operated by a doctor during surgery to replace an artificial joint. Used to remove damaged bones.In addition, by controlling unplanned movements based on XNUMXD image data such as CT, it protects tissues around joints such as ligaments and blood vessels, and enables safe and accurate surgery.This is expected to have merits such as safety, less postoperative pain, and shortening of treatment period.
Yokohama City University Hospital will actively perform surgery using robotic arms in the future.
