Clinica San Francesco reaches 5000 robotic surgeries
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This is the first health facility outside USA to achieve this goal
Clinica San Francesco, GHC group, achieves an historic goal in robotic orthopaedic surgery.
On Monday 16th January 2023 Dr Piergiuseppe Perazzini, director of Orthopaedic and Traumatology Functional Unit, and his team carried out the robotic replacement with Mako system number 5000.
This is a goal never achieved by any health facility outside USA that rewards the long journey begun 12 years ago (exactly on 27th January 2011) by Dr Perazzini with the first robotic knee replacements in Europe, followed in 2012 by the total hip ones and later in 2017 by the total knee ones (first in Italy). An exciting experience by the surgeon from Verona, real forerunner in this field, that allowed to obtain remarkable outcomes for patients and continue an improving process of procedure leading the Clinic to become a national and international reference centre for this surgical technology as well as teaching school for this.
The experience gained by Dr Perazzini and his team places the Clinic among the world leaders for the number of robotic prosthetic implants performed and cutting-edge facility in use of innovative technology.
“After 5000 surgeries I can say – Dr Perazzini states – that the technology innovation and robotic procedure represent the future of prosthetic surgery, allowing to reach a previously unthinkable precision in implant, reproducible, improving significantly the clinical results in the short and medium-term”.
Since 2013 the Clinic is CORE (Centro di Ortopedia Robotica Europeo – European Robotic Orthopaedic Centre), since 2019 “Reference centre for robotic orthopaedic surgery” of Veneto Region and since 2021 reference centre for the Italian Hand Surgery Society (SICM).
