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Robot-Assisted vs. Manual Total Knee Replacement: It’s a Tie…for Now (Cleveland Clinic)Robot scores better in length of stay and home discharge; manual scores better in flexion and operative time.
Robotic arm-assisted total knee arthroplasty (TKA) currently has some advantages over manual surgery, although either technique is effective. With time, though, robot-assisted surgery is expected to emerge as the procedure of choice for TKA.
A group of Cleveland Clinic orthopaedic surgeons recently analyzed 12 categories of data from 340 patients who had either robot-assisted or manual TKA. Results were mixed — the robot scored better on length of hospital stay and home discharge, but operative times were shorter with manual surgery. The two procedure types were the same in regard to postoperative complications.
“Robot assistance is new technology that we want to be successful,” says study coauthor Kim Stearns, MD, Chief of Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Lutheran Hospital. “So far, in the early use of the robot, it’s not substantially better than the way we’ve always done it, at least for many of the...
