A1: Custom-made Surgical Guides

The individual template (or customized surgical guides) approach has been originally developed and evaluated in different clinical applications in orthopaedic surgery in the early 1990s. Meanwhile, applications in other disciplines such as cranio-facial surgery as well as dental implantology have been established. Due to its intraoperative simplicity and intuitive handling together with a proven effectiveness and efficiency for selected applications, the individual template approach today is adopted by many clinicians and companies world wide. The workshop will provide a critical review of the benefits and bottlenecks of the template technique - from a historical review to its actual techniques and applications.

The workshop will include topics such as

Information acquisition and preprocessing (CT, MR, initial approaches, current techniques and future trends...)
Planning systems for different applications
Manufacturing approaches and techniques
Surgical techniques and applications
Clinical outcomes review
Usability and workflow considerations

Date:	Wednesday, June 15th 2011, 14:00-18:15
Location:	The Mermaid Conference & Events Centre Puddle Dock Blackfriars London EC4V 3DB Great Britain
Room:	Wright
Conveners:	Klaus Radermacher & Mahmoud Hafez
Program:	Klaus Radermacher (Helmholtz-Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Introduction and technical review Mahmoud A. Hafez (Orthopaedic Unit, October 6 University, Cairo, Egypt) Application of patient-specific cutting guides for total knee replacement: clinical introduction David Stuhlberg (Northwestern University, Chicago, USA) A detailed intra-operative evaluation of the accuracy of custom-made surgical guides using CAS measurement techniques Scott Oliver (Duxbury, MA, USA) 3D templating and pre-operative planning for TKA using OTIS knee Raj K. Sinha (Palm Springs, CA, USA) Patient specific implants: fulfilling the promise of patient specific instruments in knee arthroplasty Ferrari Vincenzo & Parchi Paolo (EndoCAS Center, University of Pisa, Italy) Limits and potentials of patient specific templates for pedicle screw placement in spine surgery
Fees:	€ 85.- (workshop only) € 65.- (attendees of the main conference)