Digital event “The Clinica San Francesco of Verona celebrates ten years of Mako robot activity”

The Clinica San Francesco of Verona, the capital of robotic surgery.

On Tuesday 31^st August 2021 was held the digital event “The Clinica San Francesco of Verona celebrates ten years of Mako robot activity”, sponsored by the Verona’s Medical Association and the Università degli Studi of Verona, and organized on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the first prosthetic orthopaedic surgery operation with the Mako system performed in Italy by Dr Piergiuseppe Perazzini, director of Orthopaedic and Traumatology Functional Unit.

The online meeting was attended by the major Italian and American experts of robotic orthopaedic surgery and the organizations that today have a decisive role for the sector international community, explaining their own experience, the most advanced innovations, benefits and future prospects. The high-technology robotic platform for the Mako prosthetic surgery was developed in the USA by the firm Stryker and introduced to Italy in 2011 by AB Medica; currently the Mako robotic systems installed worldwide are more than 1000, of which 30 in Italy (one of the first European countries for number of robotic platforms installed).

Thanks to the specific planning carried out for every patient on the CAT scan and the haptic technology that allows to remove only the necessary bone tissue, the Mako system permits to achieve a precision in the prothesis placing which was not achievable before by traditional surgery. On a total of over 450.000 surgeries performed until today (31^st August 2021) worldwide with Mako robotic procedure, in Italy and Europe the primacy belongs to Dr Perazzini who since 2011 has performed with his team 2759 total and partial knee replacements and 1215 hip replacements with Mako robot, creating – in 2013 – the European Robotic Orthopaedic Centre (CORE – Centro di Ortopedia Robotica Europeo), an European reference robotic surgery school inside the Clinica San Francesco.

“Dr Perazzini and his team are reference point for the training of our professionals in this procedure. Our organizational model patient-centered requires us to assure a high quality of services and constant and consistent investments in most advanced technologies and state-of-the-art instrumentation” Maria Laura Garofalo, Garofalo Health Care’s CEO declared.

According to Robert C. Cohen – guest of the event – President of Digital, Robotics and Enabling Technology of Stryker firm, in the next few years the trend will be to assure a “continuum of care”. The technology is planning and developing in this direction creating real digital ecosystems, where the patient and surgeon are in constant contact through apps able to follow all phases – pre, intra and post-operative.