AAOS24: POLARIS to Demonstrate its STELLAR Knee Surgical Guidance System

POLARIS announced it will be attending the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthpaedic Surgeons (AAOS) to provide interactive demonstrations of its STELLAR Knee mixed reality surgical guidance system. 
 
STELLAR Knee acts as a spatial computer, creating a continuous data exchange between the software and the surgeon. It is a portable mixed-reality headset that acquires patient-specific anatomic data in real time, providing surgeons with needed information to guide the entire knee arthroplasty procedure.
 
STELLAR Knee can be used to measure, plan, and guide the surgeon throughout the entire surgery. Surgeons can use simple hand gestures and voice commands to move throughout the workflow. 
 
The system received its FDA 510(k) clearance in November 2023. 
 
POLARIS CEO Paul Mikus commented, “We’re excited to invite leaders across the global orthopedic community to visit with us at this year’s AAOS so they can experience STELLAR Knee.  Enabling technologies in Total Knee Arthroplasty have come very far, our approach is to create an accurate, more data-driven, and accessible mixed reality environment to take surgical guidance further. Every patient is different. Without the need for pre-operative imaging, STELLAR Knee intra-operatively translates anatomic data into critical measurements needed for the surgeon to build and execute a unique, patient-specific surgical plan.  This one-of-a-kind digital environment promises to shift the standard of care.”
 
STELLAR Knee is designed to integrate and pair with any total knee replacement implant system and offers a customizable interface. 
 
“Having leveraged myriad advanced technologies in the OR, I appreciate the added advantages STELLAR Knee brings to our field,” said Nana Sarpong, MD, at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. “While this system can match the precision of surgical robots, its headset-only design is cost-efficient and leaves no footprint in the OR, making it more widely accessible than larger surgical guidance systems. As a result, this Mixed Reality technology could change practice across a broad array of orthopedic facilities.”
 
POLARIS will be at Booth No. 1068 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA from February 12-16.