How Robotic Knee Replacement Improves Precision at Baptist Health Floyd

Robotic knee surgery has basically evolved over time as we have advanced technology in the operating room. The preoperative planning is quite important for the robot or really any surgery. So when I see a patient, I try to collect as much data as I can from them in the actual clinic visit. So I actually get x rays that look at what your knees look like from your hip all the way down to your toes to understand what your overall alignment is.

And then I also get a CT scan that tells the robot what the shape of your bone is. So the robot is able to know what your knee looks like based on the CT that we feed it beforehand. And by doing so, I can decide what is the correct position of our implants in order to reduce the amount of stress on both sides of the knee. By using robots, we can use smaller incisions, have less OR time, and we're more accurate with what we're executing in the operating room, which gives us more confidence in what we're putting in patients and allowing them to get up and get moving.

The goal is to get them back to doing the things they want to do and then doing that as quickly and safely as possible.

One of the benefits about Baptist Floyd is that we are investing in the future of hip and knee replacement. We have brought in all these new technologies into this one facility and they have also expanded their operating rooms so that our capacity higher than it ever has been. Baptist is placing a large emphasis on a positive patient experience with good outcomes and primary joint replacement so that patients can go home and get back on their feet.