AMSTERDAM, Jan. 12, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Royal Philips
(NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a leader in integrated image-guided therapy
solutions, today announced the development of an industry-first
augmented-reality surgical navigation technology that is designed
to help surgeons perform image-guided open and minimally-invasive
spine surgery. Philips is a pioneer in hybrid operating room
(hybrid OR) solutions to facilitate both surgical and
minimally-invasive endovascular procedures, with over 750 hybrid
ORs installed globally. The addition of this new augmented reality
technology will further widen the scope of Philips hybrid OR
solutions to other fast-growing areas of image-guided surgery
including spine, cranial and trauma procedures.
Spine surgery was traditionally an 'open surgery' procedure,
accessing the affected area via a large incision so that surgeons
could physically see and touch the patient's spine in order to
position implants such as pedicle screws. In recent years, however,
there has been a definite shift to the use of minimally-invasive
techniques, performed by manipulating surgical tools through small
incisions in the patient's skin in order to minimize blood loss and
soft tissue damage, and consequently reduce postoperative pain. Due
to inherently reduced visibility of the spine during these
procedures, surgeons have to rely on real-time imaging and
navigation solutions to guide their surgical tools and implants.
The same is true for minimally-invasive cranial surgery and surgery
on complex trauma fractures.
Philips is developing a new augmented-reality surgical
navigation technology, which will add additional capabilities to
the company's low-dose X-ray system. The technology uses
high-resolution optical cameras mounted on the flat panel X-ray
detector to image the surface of the patient. It then combines the
external view captured by the cameras and the internal 3D view of
the patient acquired by the X-ray system to construct a 3D
augmented-reality view of the patient's external and internal
anatomy. This real-time 3D view of the patient's spine in relation
to the incision sites in the skin aims to improve procedure
planning, surgical tool navigation and implant accuracy, as well as
reducing procedure times.
"This unique augmented-reality technology is an example of how
we expand our capabilities with innovative solutions in growth
areas such as spine, neuro and trauma surgery," said Ronald
Tabaksblat, Business Leader Image-Guided Therapy Systems at
Philips. "By teaming up with clinical innovation leaders, we
continue to find ways to convert open surgery to minimally-invasive
treatment to reduce post-operative pain and expedite recovery."
As part of a joint clinical research program, Philips hybrid ORs
with this new capability will be installed in a network of ten
clinical collaborators to advance the technology.
The results of the first pre-clinical study on the technology
have been published in the prestigious SPINE journal, as a result
of a collaboration between Philips, Karolinska University Hospital
(Stockholm, Sweden) and the
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, USA). The technology was shown to be
significantly better with respect to overall accuracy,
compared to pedicle screw placement without the aid of Philips'
augmented-reality surgical navigation technology (85% vs 64%,
p<0.05).
"This new technology allows us to intraoperatively make a
high-resolution 3D image of the patient's spine, plan the optimal
device path, and subsequently place pedicle screws using the
system's fully-automatic augmented-reality navigation," said Dr.
Skúlason of the Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland. "We can also check the
overall result in 3D in the OR without the need to move the patient
to a CT scanner. And all this can be done without any radiation
exposure to the surgeon and with minimal dose to the patient."
The technology was also recently presented at the North American
Spine Society Annual Meeting in Boston by Dr. Adrian Elmi-Terander of
Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden.
Today, Philips' commercial hybrid OR solutions are already being
used for image-guided minimally-invasive surgery (click on this
link to watch the video):
"Since we no longer do open spine surgery, we depend on imaging
and image quality," commented Prof. Seekamp from the
Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein in Kiel, Germany. "I had expected the operations to
take a little longer in the hybrid OR, but in fact just the
opposite is true."
Dr. Bemelman, trauma surgeon at the Elisabeth Hospital in
Tilburg, the Netherlands, said "We
teamed up with vascular, neuro and orthopedic surgeons to create
this multi-purpose OR to realize a high room utilization, provide
state-of-the-art care and reduce the overall cost for the
hospital."
For further information, please contact:
Steve Klink
Philips Group Communications
Tel.: +31 6 10888824
E-mail: steve.klink@philips.com
Fabienne van der Feer
Philips Image Guided Therapy
Tel: + 31 622698001
E-mail: fabienne.van.der.feer@philips.com
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Philips
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focused on improving people's health and enabling better
outcomes across the health continuum from healthy living and
prevention, to diagnosis, treatment and home care. Philips
leverages advanced technology and deep clinical and
consumer insights to deliver integrated solutions.
Headquartered in the Netherlands,
the company is a leader in diagnostic imaging, image-guided
therapy, patient monitoring and health informatics, as
well as in consumer health and home care. Philips'
health technology portfolio generated 2015 sales of EUR 16.8 billion and employs approximately 70,000
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