Digitizing Surgery (LinkedIn article by Peter Verrillo, CEO @ enhatch)
Imagine, as a total joint replacement orthopedic surgeon today, that you are handed a mallet and an osteotome and told that is all you have to implant a state of the art total knee system. It’s hard to conceive of in today’s environment, but this is exactly how the modern era of total condylar knee replacement began in the late 1960’s and early 70’s.
The development of improved implants, instruments, and techniques for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) since then is a well documented one. Several well known surgeons, i...