As of Feb. 5, Ark.-based Baptist Health Medical Center in Little Rock and North Little Rock offers robotic-arm assisted total knee, partial knee and total hip replacement with Stryker's Mako System. Baptist Health is the only medical center in central Arkansas to have the Mako robot.
Here are three things to know:
1. The demand for joint replacements is expected increase in the next decade. Total knee replacements in the U.S. are estimated to increase by 673 percent over the next 10 years, while primary hip replacements are estimated to increase by 174 percent.
2. Surgeons can use the Mako System to create a specific surgical plan and identify the implant size, orientation and alignment based on the patient's unique anatomy through CT-based 3-D bone modeling. The Mako System also enables surgeons to virtually modify the surgical plan intraoperatively and aids the surgeon in executing bone resections.
3. Baptist Health is a nonprofit healthcare organization with 9,100-plus employees at nine hospitals in Arkansas.
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