The Clinica San Francesco, Garofalo Healthcare Group, confirms itself as international reference centre for robotic orthopaedic surgery training.

On Tuesday 22^nd February 2022 the Clinic hosted Dr Alberto Francés Borrego, Hip Unit director of Hospital Clínico Universitario San Carlos of Madrid (Spain), which attended a hip replacement, performed with Mako robot by Dr Piergiuseppe Perazzini, director of Orthopaedic and Traumatology Functional Unit, as well as European pioneer for robotic hip and knee surgery, and even among the first to use the last upgrade 4.0 of this cutting-edge procedure.

“The robotic surgery in the total hip arthroplasty is becoming a standard technique and, in fact, offers many advantages, related to the improvement of implants positioning. For a surgeon is always positive the exchange of ideas and the chance to see the operation procedures in other hospitals” – Dr Borrego commented at the end of training.

The Clinica San Francesco is Veneto Region reference centre for robotic orthopaedic surgery as well as European Robotic Orthopaedic Centre (CORE) with an intense training activity for surgeons from all over the Europe.