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 Amandeep
Hospital, Amritsar, is among the first hospitals in the Northern India to Use a Computer assisted navigation system in Orthopedic joint replacement surgery.
The image-guided navigation system is similar to the location and directional tracking systems used for cars and ships today--it is, in effect, a global positioning system (GPS) for the surgeons. Informative positioning
calculations are individual patient's anatomy.
Orthopedic implant developer, Aesculap B Braun and navigation technologies developer, Surgical Navigation Technologies have teamed up to offer this solution in Amritsar. Orthopedic Surgeon at Amandeep Hospital have been leaders in the introduction of minimally-invasive surgical (MIS) in the
Amritsar and plan to adopt surgical navigation into their MIS procedures in the near future.
This technology superimposes the position of the instruments as they are used in surgery onto images of the anatomy displayed on a monitor. Much as the driver of a car used the GPS system to find the way on the road, the surgeon depends on these images to confirm the position of their instruments in relation to the patient's anatomy.
The Image-Guided Surgery (IGS) camera works like the satellite that detects signals from cars, boats and other vehicles equipped with special tracking devices. Asthe surgeon moves an instruments within the patient's joint, the IGS camera, like the GPS satellite, calculates its position, and then transfers that data to a computer in the operation room. The computer then shows the direction and the location of the instrument.
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