Authors:
Ben Salem Mohamed Oussama
1
;
Mosbahi Olfa
2
;
Khalgui Mohamed
2
and
Frey Georg
3
Affiliations:
1
University of Carthage, Tunisia
;
2
University of Carthage, eHealth Technologies Consortium and eHTC, Tunisia
;
3
Saarland University, Germany
Keyword(s):
Supracondylar Humerus Fracture, Robot-assisted Surgery, E-Heath, Reconfiguration.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Cardiovascular Technologies
;
Cloud Computing
;
Computing and Telecommunications in Cardiology
;
e-Health
;
e-Health for Public Health
;
Evaluation and Use of Healthcare IT
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Health Information Systems
;
Healthcare Management Systems
;
Medical and Nursing Informatics
;
Platforms and Applications
;
Software Systems in Medicine
;
Telemedicine
Abstract:
The supracondylar humerus fracture is one of the most common and challenging injury faced by pediatric
orthopedic surgeons. Its treatment may lead to many neurological and vascular complications. This is
mainly due to the "blind" pinning performed by surgeons to fix the fractured elbow's fragments.
Furthermore, the medical staff is usually exposed to a high level of radiations during the surgery because of
the fluoroscopically assisted treatment. Thus, a new robotized platform baptized BROS is developed in
Tunisia to remedy this issue and allow performing a safer surgery. BROS is reconfigurable and may run
under several operating modes, meeting, thus, the surgeon's requirements and the environment constraints.
This paper introduces this new robotic platform and a real case of robot-assisted surgery is simulated to
check the performances of BROS.