Imperial College London
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DrSimonHarris

Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery & Cancer

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@article{Jones:2018:10.1007/s00402-018-3031-9,
author = {Jones, GG and Logishetty, K and Clarke, S and Collins, R and Jaere, M and Harris, S and Cobb, JP},
doi = {10.1007/s00402-018-3031-9},
journal = {Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery},
pages = {1601--1608},
title = {Do patient-specific instruments (PSI) for UKA allow non-expert surgeons to achieve the same saw cut accuracy as expert surgeons?},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00402-018-3031-9},
volume = {138},
year = {2018}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - INTRODUCTION: High-volume unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) surgeons have lower revision rates, in part due to improved intra-operative component alignment. This study set out to determine whether PSI might allow non-expert surgeons to achieve the same level of accuracy as expert surgeons. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Thirty-four surgical trainees with no prior experience of UKA, and four high-volume UKA surgeons were asked to perform the tibial saw cuts for a medial UKA in a sawbone model using both conventional and patient-specific instrumentation (PSI) with the aim of achieving a specified pre-operative plan. Half the participants in each group started with conventional instrumentation, and half with PSI. CT scans of the 76 cut sawbones were then segmented and reliably orientated in space, before saw cut position in the sagittal, coronal and axial planes was measured, and compared to the pre-operative plan. RESULTS: The compound error (absolute error in the coronal, sagittal and axial planes combined) for experts using conventional instruments was significantly less than that of the trainees (11.6°±4.0° v 7.7° ±2.3º, p = 0.029). PSI improved trainee accuracy to the same level as experts using conventional instruments (compound error 5.5° ±3.4º v 7.7° ±2.3º, p = 0.396) and patient-specific instruments (compound error 5.5° ±3.4º v 7.3° ±4.1º, p = 0.3). PSI did not improve the accuracy of high-volume surgeons (p = 0.3). CONCLUSIONS: In a sawbone model, PSI allowed inexperienced surgeons to achieve more accurate saw cuts, equivalent to expert surgeons, and thus has the potential to reduce revision rates. The next test will be to determine whether these results can be replicated in a clinical trial.
AU  - Jones,GG
AU  - Logishetty,K
AU  - Clarke,S
AU  - Collins,R
AU  - Jaere,M
AU  - Harris,S
AU  - Cobb,JP
DO  - 10.1007/s00402-018-3031-9
EP  - 1608
PY  - 2018///
SN  - 0936-8051
SP  - 1601
TI  - Do patient-specific instruments (PSI) for UKA allow non-expert surgeons to achieve the same saw cut accuracy as expert surgeons?
T2  - Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00402-018-3031-9
UR  - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30178169
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/63796
VL  - 138
ER  -
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