MemorialCare Joint Replacement Center at Long Beach (Calif.) Medical Center installed the ExactechGPS Guided Personalized Surgery for shoulder replacement procedures, reports Biospace.
Three things to know:
1. The navigation system offers surgeons alignment data and real-time visual guidance with a map of the patient's joint on a monitor.
2. ExactechGPS features a preoperative planning tool that enables surgeons to prepare using virtual simulation before surgery.
3. The patient-specific technology assists surgeons in deciding where to remove bone and place the shoulder implant in the prime position.
"ExactechGPS provides patients a solution for chronic shoulder pain that impacts their quality of life and disrupts healthy sleep," said Michael Pahl, MD, orthopedic surgeon at LBMC.