The Clinica San Francesco has been recognized as «Reference facility for the robotic orthopaedic surgery» from the Veneto Region

The Clinica San Francesco achieves an important and prestigious goal in its medical and institutional history.

Indeed, the facility has been recently recognized as «Reference facility for the robotic orthopaedic surgery» by the Veneto Region, on the basis of a regional delibaration that identifies the Clinic as expert medical facility, specialized and dedicated to the robotic orthopaedic surgery. The Clinic is already accredited with the Italian Healthcare System and is a state of the art robotic knee and hip replacements, where MD Piergiuseppe Perazzini, director of the Functional Unit of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, represents the the European forerunner and leader of these procedures.  Indeed, in 2011 he carried out the first robotic partial knee replacement outside the USA.

The Clinic continued to keep the leadership during the following years also for the robotic total hip replacement (2012) and robotic total knee replacement (2017 – this latter at Italian level). Currently, MD Perazzini is the European surgeon (with his staff) who carried out the highest number of robotic hip and knee operations, over 2700 on the 7000 realized in the 17 Italian centres that use the robotic prosthetic surgery. But the Clinic since 2013 also hosts the CORE (Centro di Ortopedia Robotica Europeo – European Robotic Orthopaedic Center) and acts as training center for the Italian and European orthopaedic surgeons who want to enhance the robotic procedure through courses, skill labs, frontal lessons and training on synthetic bones. In 2018 the Clinic had got 6.074 admissions, 5.806 operations (of which 3.186 orthopaedic operations) and provided 200.000 outpatient services for more than ten thousand people.

“This recognition ratifies the development of a path and activity begun in 2011 and continued over the years, growing and improving qualitatively day by day – Mr Perazzini explained -. The Clinic introduced the robotic prosthetic surgery and this has requested a remarkable effort by all staff, a challenge we won also thanks to this prize. The introduction of the robotic system within the operating room involved a strict study and intense training for the staff which was able to increase their skills, making the Clinic a state of the art facility in the training of surgeons from all over the Europe. The robotic prosthetic surgery determines many benefits for patients: saving of tissues, rapid operative course, return to daily normal activities in a few days (not months), a personalized prosthesis placed with millimetric position therefore with a margin of error almost non-existent”.