Smith+Nephew Debuts CORIOGRAPH Pre-Op Planning and Modeling Services

Smith+Nephew has launched its new CORIOGRAPH Pre-Operative Planning and Modeling Services, a tool that provides a personalized solution for patients undergoing partial and total knee arthroplasty procedures with the CORI Surgical System.

The CORI System is touted by the company as the only orthopedic robotic-assisted solution to offer either intraoperative image-free or image-based registration, enabling the surgeon to choose whether or not to perform a pre-operative magnetic resonance imaging scan.
 
Delivering solutions for differing patient types coupled with planning and execution tools is essential to personalizing surgery. Robotic-assisted surgery can improve accuracy and reproducibility, and may lead to better patient outcomes compared to conventional techniques.^1-3
 
The first procedures using CORIOGRAPH Pre-Operative Planning and Modeling Services and RI.KNEE ROBOTICS 3.0 software were recently completed by Dr. Steven Haas, an orthopedic surgeon and chief of Knee Service at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, N.Y. “We are now truly personalizing surgery and advancing efficiencies with RI.KNEE 3.0 and CORIOGRAPH services,’ he said. “Providing the ability to choose the right imaging modality represents the next paradigm for individualized patient care and brings orthopedic robotics to another level.”
 
The CORI Surgical System offers proprietary tools and artificial intelligence-driven software across the full suite of procedure solutions to deliver a robotics platform that is flexible and scalable across joint arthroplasty indications. Built on more than 15 years of clinical expertise and over 350,000 image-based surgery plans, CORIOGRAPH Pre-Operative Planning and Modeling Services is designed to optimize procedures and enable intraoperative efficiencies in conjunction with new RI.KNEE ROBOTICS 3.0 software, which includes:

• Image-agnostic registration functionality, including image-based and image-free offerings 
• Optimized knee offering with support for pre-cut tensioning with the CORI Digital Tensioner for partial, total and revision knees 

“The introduction of CORIOGRAPH Pre-Operative Planning and Modeling Services signals the next big step in personalized surgery and the evolution of our robotics ecosystem. This combined with the CORI Digital Tensioner will further advance efficiencies for robotic-assisted procedures,” said Mayank Shandil, senior vice president of Global Marketing – Reconstruction and Robotics at Smith+Nephew. 
 
Smith+Nephew is a portfolio medical technology business focused on the repair, regeneration, and replacement of soft and hard tissue. The company employs 18,000 workers across three global business units: Orthopaedics, Sports Medicine & ENT, and Advanced Wound Management. Founded in Hull, U.K., in 1856, Smith+Nephew now operates in more than 100 countries, and generated $5.5 billion in annual sales in 2023. Smith+Nephew is a constituent of the FTSE100. 
 
References
¹ Matsumoto T, Nakano N, Hayashi S, et al. Prosthetic orientation, limb alignment, and soft tissue balance with bi-cruciate stabilized total knee arthroplasty: a comparison between the handheld robot and conventional techniques. International Orthopaedics 2023;47(6):1473-80. doi: 10.1007/s00264-023-05737-6 
² Crizer MP, Haffar A, Battenberg A, et al. Robotic Assistance in Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty Results in Superior Early Functional Recovery and Is More Likely to Meet Patient Expectations. Advances in Orthopedics 2021;2021 doi: 10.1155/2021/4770960 
³ Negrín R, Duboy J, Iñiguez M, et al. Robotic-assisted vs conventional surgery in medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: a clinical and radiological study. Knee Surg Relat Res2021;33(1):5. doi: 10.1186/s43019-021-00087-2 [published Online First: 2021/02/14]