Robot-Bone Attachment Device for Robot-Assisted Percutaneous Bone Fragment Manipulation

5 pages•Published: June 13, 2017

Giulio Dagnino, Ioannis Georgilas, Kostas Georgilas, Paul Köhler, Samir Morad, Peter Gibbons, Roger Atkins and Sanja Dogramadzi

Abstract

The treatment of joint-fractures is a common task in orthopaedic surgery causing considerable health costs and patient disabilities. Percutaneous techniques have been developed to mitigate the problems related to open surgery (e.g. soft tissue damage), although their application to joint-fractures is limited by the sub-optimal intra-operative imaging (2D-fluoroscopy) and by the high forces involved. Our earlier research toward improving percutaneous reduction of intra-articular fractures has resulted in the creation of a robotic system prototype, i.e. RAFS (Robot-Assisted Fracture Surgery) system.
We propose a robot-bone attachment device for percutaneous bone manipulation, which can be anchored to the bone fragment through one small incision, ensuring the required stability and reducing the “biological cost” of the procedure. The device has been evaluated through the reduction of 9 distal femur fractures on human cadavers using the RAFS system.

Keyphrases: cadaveric trials, fea, percutaneous bone manipulation, robotic surgery

In: Klaus Radermacher and Ferdinando Rodriguez Y Baena (editors). CAOS 2017. 17th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery, vol 1, pages 126-130.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/F2nM
	https://doi.org/10.29007/6wtt

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{CAOS2017:Robot_Bone_Attachment_Device,
  author    = {Giulio Dagnino and Ioannis Georgilas and Kostas Georgilas and Paul Köhler and Samir Morad and Peter Gibbons and Roger Atkins and Sanja Dogramadzi},
  title     = {Robot-Bone Attachment Device for Robot-Assisted Percutaneous Bone Fragment Manipulation},
  booktitle = {CAOS 2017. 17th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery},
  editor    = {Klaus Radermacher and Ferdinando Rodriguez Y Baena},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Health Sciences},
  volume    = {1},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2398-5305},
  url       = {/publications/paper/F2nM},
  doi       = {10.29007/6wtt},
  pages     = {126-130},
  year      = {2017}}

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