Operative Time Learning Curve for an Image-Free Robotic Arm Assisted Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Cumulative Sum Analysis.

IF 1.5 Q3 ORTHOPEDICS Arthroplasty Today Pub Date : 2024-12-23 eCollection Date: 2025-02-01 DOI:10.1016/j.artd.2024.101588

Cale A Pagan, Theofilos Karasavvidis, Breana Siljander, Eytan M Debbi, Charles A DeCook, Jonathan Vigdorchik

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Abstract

Background: Robotic arm assisted total knee arthroplasty (RA-TKA) aims to improve accuracy in bone resection, implant positioning, and joint alignment compared to manual TKA (M-TKA). However, the learning curve of RA-TKA can disrupt operating room efficiency, increase complications, and raise costs. This study examines the operative time learning curve of RA-TKA using a single robotic system.

Methods: The study analyzed the first 80 RA-TKA and the last 80 M-TKA cases performed by a single surgeon using the VELYS robotic system after transitioning from M-TKA. Cases were subdivided into groups of 20 and compared to M-TKA cases. A cumulative summation analysis identified the learning curve phases.

Results: Three phases were identified: Phase 1 (initial learning, cases 1-9), Phase 2 (increased competence, plateau from cases 10-52), and Phase 3 (post-learning, optimized performance from cases 53-80). Mean surgical time for RA-TKA was 42.4 ± 8.7 minutes, compared to 35.3 ± 7.0 minutes for M-TKA (P < .001). Early RA-TKA cases (1-20) had significantly longer times than late RA-TKA cases (61-80) and M-TKA cases (P < .05). Late RA-TKA times were comparable to M-TKA (P = .06).

Conclusions: RA-TKA is an enabling surgical tool that can be integrated efficiently into a surgical workflow with a rapid learning curve of 9 cases.

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Arthroplasty Today Medicine-Surgery

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258

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40 weeks

期刊介绍： Arthroplasty Today is a companion journal to the Journal of Arthroplasty. The journal Arthroplasty Today brings together the clinical and scientific foundations for joint replacement of the hip and knee in an open-access, online format. Arthroplasty Today solicits manuscripts of the highest quality from all areas of scientific endeavor that relate to joint replacement or the treatment of its complications, including those dealing with patient outcomes, economic and policy issues, prosthetic design, biomechanics, biomaterials, and biologic response to arthroplasty. The journal focuses on case reports. It is the purpose of Arthroplasty Today to present material to practicing orthopaedic surgeons that will keep them abreast of developments in the field, prove useful in the care of patients, and aid in understanding the scientific foundation of this subspecialty area of joint replacement. The international members of the Editorial Board provide a worldwide perspective for the journal''s area of interest. Their participation ensures that each issue of Arthroplasty Today provides the reader with timely, peer-reviewed articles of the highest quality.