Celebrating 100th MAKO Robotic Assisted Surgery Case at Nuffield

Andrew Carrothers headed up the team at Nuffield Cambridge yesterday to successfully complete the 100th Mako case! This is a great milestone showing that robotic-assisted surgery is taking orthopaedics to the next level in terms of accuracy and success rates.

Andrew Carrothers preparing for Mako surgery

Pros and Cons of Robotic Assisted Surgery

Robotic knee and hip replacement surgery – using a state of the art robotic arm called Mako  – has been hailed as a new era in orthopaedic surgery. Surgeons talk about improved clinical outcomes due to the fact that the robot can assist with increased accuracy of standard implant positioning  and exact achievement of the…