Computer and Robotic Assisted Orthopaedic Knee Arthroplasty Surgery Who drives innovations?

5 pages•Published: December 13, 2022

David Wallace, Fahd Mahmood, Angela Deakin, Philip Riches, Kamal Deep, Joseph Baines and Frederic Picard

Abstract

Computer assisted and Robotic technology in orthopaedic surgery is still not commonplace compared to un-assisted, conventional orthopaedic surgery. We analysed the relationship between patents and publications trend and question whether we could recognise a pattern which would confirm industry-driven innovation in orthopaedic surgery.
Following the same methodology used by Dalton et al. in 2016, we searched pubmed for publications between 1980 and 2018 concerning unicompartmental, patient specific instrumentation, navigation and robotic knee arthroplasty, and patents registered under the “knee arthroplasty” or “knee replacement” label over the same period. Data was plotted using 4 point moving averages.
Between 2004 and 2008, the number of publications regarding navigation multiplied by 20 following the number of patents registered during the same period. From 2008 onwards, the number of navigation publications declined while Patient Specific Instrumentation (PSI) publications increased also following patent investments from orthopaedic companies. Finally, robotic publications grew significantly pulled by massive patent registrations after 2012.
It seems that the industry has finally found a lucrative economical model after many years of trial and errors and sustained driving innovations.

Keyphrases: caos, industry, innovation, knee arthroplasty

In: Ferdinando Rodriguez Y Baena, Joshua W Giles and Eric Stindel (editors). Proceedings of The 20th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery, vol 5, pages 190-194.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/S4hRq
	https://doi.org/10.29007/xn1l

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{CAOS2022:Computer_Robotic_Assisted_Orthopaedic,
  author    = {David Wallace and Fahd Mahmood and Angela Deakin and Philip Riches and Kamal Deep and Joseph Baines and Frederic Picard},
  title     = {Computer and Robotic Assisted Orthopaedic Knee Arthroplasty Surgery Who drives innovations?},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of The 20th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery},
  editor    = {Ferdinando Rodriguez Y Baena and Joshua W Giles and Eric Stindel},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Health Sciences},
  volume    = {5},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2398-5305},
  url       = {/publications/paper/S4hRq},
  doi       = {10.29007/xn1l},
  pages     = {190-194},
  year      = {2022}}

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