MAKO SYSTEM CERTIFICATION SURGICAL TRAINING PROGRAMME VERONA 27th-28th AUGUST 2019
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Verona, the European Capital of robotic surgery.
The MD Paolo Sembenini and Michele Trevisan, Orthopaedics and Traumatology Functional Unit of Clinica San Francesco, took part as speakers and members of faculty at the “Mako System Certification Surgical Training Programme – Mako Total Knee & Partial Knee & Total Hip applications”, the certification course for the robotic orthopaedic surgeons organized by the Stryker firm (through its division Education Europe) at the ICLO Teaching and Research Center of Verona, held on 27th and 28th August 2019. The certification is necessary to use the technique and allowed about 20 surgeons from all over Europe to approach the innovative procedure, practicing live under the supervision of Clinic expert surgeons.
During the first day, MD Sembenini coordinated 4 operations on 4 robotic workstations, dedicating initially to the total knee prosthetic surgery and later to the partial one, preceding, at every practical session, a theoretical introductory presentation. The second day was focused on the hip prosthetic surgery. MD Trevisan, in a first class phase, described the robotic hip replacement procedure through the DAA (Direct Anterior Approach), deepening the solutions resulting from his consolidated experience. In a second laboratory phase the ‘anatomical preparations’ procedure was experienced.
As mentioned, MD Sembenini and Trevisan belong to the surgical staff directed by MD Piergiuseppe Perazzini, European forerunner and second only to the United States in the carrying out of robotic partial knee replacement (2011) and robotic total hip replacement (2012) operations, and Italian pioneer for the robotic total knee replacement (2017) ones.
