First NextAR surgeries in Japan with the award-winning NextAR Augmented Reality Surgical Platform - OrthoSpineNews

CASTEL SAN PIETRO, 11 January 2023 – Medacta is pleased to denote the first NextAR^TM surgeries person been successfully performed successful Japan with its innovative NextAR, Augmented Reality Surgical Platform.  NextAR is the archetypal surgical level to connection personalized augmented world solutions for some associated replacement and spine procedures leveraging patient-specific, unsocial real-time information to efficiently complement operative workflow.

Since the caller support from Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW), NextAR Platform further enlarges its worldwide outreach, engaging with caller surgeons with the purpose of achieving amended outcomes for patients.

• NextAR Knee: “NextAR for TKA with GMK Sphere is 1 of the innovative enabling technologies successful Computer Assisted Orthopedic Surgery which could present caller surgical acquisition to Japanese surgeons successful presumption of augmented world utilizing astute glasses and CT-based ligament equilibrium appraisal and biomechanical simulation. Our radical believes that it has the immense imaginable to amended diligent outcomes. We are excited to supply caller worth for our patients,” Dr. Atsushi Sato, Ph.D.

• NextAR Shoulder: “Glenoid implantation is the important constituent of reverse enarthrosis arthroplasty. In cases with glenoid deformity, we were sometimes successful trouble. NextAR Shoulder helps america to easy visualize the bony signifier and precisely implant the glenoid constituent arsenic we planned. I judge this caller exertion volition pb to bully objective results for our patients,” says Dr. Noboru Matsumura.
   
• NextAR Spine: “NextAR mounting up is precise elemental and navigation of the instruments is easy, with a astute tracking strategy of the instruments that drastically trim the enactment of sight. What I truly similar astir NextAR is the accelerated and elemental process to getting started with spine navigation, combined to a precise precocious level of accuracy of the screw placement acknowledgment to the AR glasses” says Dr. Kanji Sasaki. “I deliberation that NextAR combined with M.U.S.T. LT brings an innovative and businesslike mode to attack spine navigation, the array of navigable instruments is bully and precise casual to acceptable up, and the glasses let maine to support the absorption connected the surgical tract portion navigating the instruments. Accuracy is precise impressive. NextAR is simply a precise reliable system,” says Dr. Takeshi Umebayashi.

Through precocious 3D readying tools, a compact and revolutionary single-use tracking system, and augmented reality, NextAR enables data-driven decision-making allowing the surgeon to execute personalized procedures based connected each patient’s unsocial anatomy and biomechanics. These invaluable insights are displayed done the NextAR Smart Glasses straight onto the operative tract to springiness the surgeon enhanced visualization and power during the procedure. The accrued level of information whitethorn supply much precision and could pb to improved diligent outcomes.

“We are highly arrogant that this unique, lean, and sustainable exertion has reached a caller applicable market, wherever it has sparked the involvement of galore surgeons. NextAR represents a caller magnitude for enabling technologies, seamlessly integrating into well-established surgical workflows,” says Francesco Siccardi, Chief Executive Officer of Medacta International.

In enactment with Medacta’s doctrine of healthcare sustainability, the NextAR level is offered arsenic a hardware strategy with constricted superior concern and single-use instrumentation astatine a debased outgo per lawsuit and offers the quality to big bundle for aggregate applications. The level represents an optimal solution worldwide, peculiarly for US Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs).

The NextAR surgical level is portion of Medacta’s MySolutions Personalized Ecosystem, an precocious web of integer solutions designed to amended diligent outcomes and healthcare efficiency. MySolutions embodies Medacta’s holistic attack to personalized medicine, aiming to bring worth to each measurement of the diligent travel from preoperative done postoperative care.

NextAR is besides supported by the comprehensive, tailored acquisition offerings provided by the M.O.R.E. Institute. With an planetary web of adept surgeons, the M.O.R.E. Institute is astatine the forefront of acquisition connected spine procedures and products with personalized high-level acquisition pathways. With Medacta, the surgeon is ne'er alone.

To larn much astir NextAR Augmented Reality Surgical Platform delight visit https://nextar.medacta.com/

Contact 
Medacta International SA
Gianluca Olgiati     
Senior Director Global Marketing  
Phone: +41 91 696 60 60
media@medacta.ch

About Medacta
Medacta is an planetary institution specializing successful the design, production, and organisation of innovative orthopaedic products, arsenic good arsenic successful the improvement of accompanying surgical techniques. Established successful 1999 successful Switzerland, Medacta is progressive successful associated replacement, spine surgery, and sports medicine. Medacta is committed to improving the attraction and well-being of patients and maintains a beardown absorption connected healthcare sustainability. Medacta’s innovation, forged by adjacent collaboration with surgeon experts globally, began with minimally invasive surgical techniques and has evolved into personalized solutions for each patient. Through the M.O.R.E. Institute, Medacta supports surgeons with a broad and tailored programme dedicated to the advancement of aesculapian education. Medacta is headquartered successful Castel San Pietro, Switzerland, and operates successful implicit 40 countries.