Abstracts from the Third Annual North American Program on Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery(CAOS/USA ‘99), held at UPMC Shadyside, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA on June 17-19, 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 194 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1092-9088
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✦ Synopsis
REMARKS FROM THE CHAIRMAN
The role of the CAOS program is to educate practicing orthopaedic surgeons on the rapidly evolving field of computer assisted orthopaedic surgery. The course presents the most current thinking on the impact of computer assisted surgical techniques on the clinical and surgical routine in several orthopaedic subspecialties. Within the last few years, UPMC Shadyside has hosted surgeons, researchers, and corporate representatives from all around the world. This year's conference continued to emphasize the innovative use of computer-based technologies in areas such as the integration of medical imaging and computer vision in the operating room, robotic assistive devices and intraoperative navigational systems, surgical simulations and planning, and virtual reality in surgery.
The realization of these advancements in medicine will require continued collaboration between physicians and the research community. We need to bring together and educate clinicians in order to define the current status of these technologies and explore future directions and clinical applications. Therefore, the goals of CAOS are to:
• Educate practicing orthopaedic surgeons on new technologies which have the potential to impact clinical practice;
• Identify new tools and emerging technologies which will enhance patient care; • Foster interdisciplinary clinical research using technologies not traditionally used by orthopaedists, namely: robotics, computer vision, virtual and hybrid reality, and intraoperative image guided surgery.
We have been encouraged to see so much interest in these new and emerging technologies which will undoubtedly influence the way surgeons plan, simulate, and execute surgery now and in the future.