The CorPathTM Vascular Robotics System
Medical robotic systems are changing the landscape of medical procedures and providing hospitals with reduced costs and heightened awareness in their community. The CorPath system is designed to deliver higher quality of care to the coronary catheterization lab by enhancing the safety and precision of the procedure for the patient and the physician.
Improves Safety and Ergonomics for the Physician
- Over years in practice cardiologists are exposed to ionizing radiation doses that put them at risk for developing cancer and cataracts. The CorPath interventional cockpit provides a radiation free zone for the physician to perform the procedure. Physicians are concerned about the amount of radiation exposure they receive over many procedures and the years of their career.
- The physician operates the CorPath system while seated in a comfortable ergonomically correct position which reduces orthopedic stresses and spinal pain which is experienced from standing in a protective lead apron. The journal Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions reported in 2009 on occupational hazards in the catheterization lab. Of 424 interventionalists surveyed, 42% reported spine problems. Over one third of these physicians reported missing work due to their injury.1
- The improved ergonomic position for the physician also greatly reduces fatigue, thereby enabling better concentration and focus for longer periods of time.
Improves Procedure for the Patient - Enhanced precision and control of guidewires and catheters could lead to improved outcomes for the patient. The system is designed to help the physician to place stents more precisely. This could reduce the need to place a second stent which would be required when the initial stent placement does not adequately cover the lesion.
- Reducing stents per patient would shorten procedure time and reduce both patient radiation contrast dose.
- The close proximity of imaging monitors and other clinical information screens in the cockpit is designed to improve visualization of angiography during the procedure.
- The ability for the system to hold and fixate devices during the entire procedure, (like extra helping hands), enables him/her to control contrast injection while manipulating the guidewire at the same time.
- Improved ability for the physician to visualize angiography while controlling contrast injection could reduce the amount of contrast media and radiation dose for the patient.
Improves Capability and Awareness for the Hospital
- Robotics systems in hospitals are demonstrating benefits in productivity and market share growth. The CorPath System is the first robotic technology being introduced for coronary interventions in cardiac catheterization labs. Hospitals with robotic surgical technology improve their reputation and have the opportunity to enhance patient referrals and recruit leading physicians.