Lantern® - Device for Knee Arthroplasty
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Good things come in a small package! (At least that’s what she said…) - #NeoArmory:
Gone are the days when Navigation arthroplasty meant lugging around a big machine between theatres on an arthroplasty day. Anything and everything is hand-held nowadays.
Imagine dictating your clinic letters with this Dictaphone… in a ward round… in a trauma bay..
So OrthoAlign, decided why not a handheld navigation device. Their latest iteration is Lantern®, an improvement on their longstanding Kneealign.
Asking the real questions…Can I check Twitter while operating? -
It is an accelerometer-based computer navigation. It is a sensor and small mobile phone sized screen that attaches to their jig and references on the go. Gets your mechanical axis cuts and helps with gap balancing. Chamfer cuts can be done with the implant’s cutting blocks.
The entire set is just one tray of instruments and one disposable. It is implanted agnostic, so it integrates easily into your workflow and multiple cases mean extra sets. The best part is, no need for a pre-op CT. All required software is on the device and no subscriptions. No big consoles and the theatre support staff are going to love it.
This study concludes it can help reduce the malalignment of tibial cuts and avoids breaching IM canals. Interestingly, it reduces tourniquet time.
With ever-advancing kinematic and phenotypic alignment concepts, a device like this can shift us from the ‘art of eye-balling cuts’ to making them patient-specific without huge costs.
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