Fanfani is an integrated network for diagnostics and health in Tuscany, geared to meet the needs of patients with the widest range of health services and personalized care pathways. The goal has always been to promote a cutting-edge health culture focused on prevention, holistic personal well-being and respect for the environment.
Robotic Prosthetic Surgery hasalready become a benchmark in the international scientific world for first implant surgery of hip and knee replacements for a few years. It is an alternative surgery to traditional Prosthetic Surgery but provides the patient with accuracy, precision and the greatest possible safety during surgery.
To perform the task, the orthopedic surgeon is joined in the operating room by Surgical Robots that act as calculators for proper alignment and balancing of the prosthesis and offering a mechanical arm that helps the surgeon perform millimeter cuts on the bone.
Although with different technical characteristics, orthopedic robots allow guided performance of total hip and knee replacements and medial and lateral monocompartmental knee replacements. Results from scientific publications show that robotic technologies increase accuracy, offer faster patient recovery options and better outcomes.
The main advantages of this robotic surgery?
Enhanced surgical planning by creating a 3D model of the joint prior to surgery, allowing the surgeon to be more accurate when implanting the prosthesis. Extreme precision through continuous feed-back between the robot's antennas and receivers during surgery. In addition to this, we consider tissue savings through the use of the robotic arm, minimally invasive and less bleeding, using smaller surgical access routes. Not to mention increased safety during surgery.
The result of these advantages makes it possible to propose a surgical intervention protocol (Fast-Track) that aims to reduce invasiveness and discomfort for the patient before, after, and during surgery. The Protocol provides perioperative surgical, rehabilitative, and anesthesiologic care that allows the patient optimal postoperative pain control and reduces the risk of infection, thromboembolism, and most negative stimuli (urinary catheter, joint drains), allowing the subject a quick resumption of ambulation with reduced hospitalization time.
Dr. Matteo Olivieri, with the team of Dr. Patrizio Caldora (CaldoraGroup), performs this type of surgery both in agreement with the SSN and in private/insured form, in Tuscany at San Giuseppe Hospital in Arezzo and in Lombardy at IRCCS S.Raffaele in Milan.
