Tuodao Medical

Currently, with the development of technology, more and more intelligent products and high-tech products appear in our life. At the same time, intelligent medical care is gradually influencing all the aspects of the healthcare industry.

Jiangsu Province Hospital began the cooperation with Tuodao® Medical Co., Ltd in 2018, and the first 5G remotely operated robotic vertebroplasty trial in China was completed. The two sides signed a contract again on May 27, expressing mutual expectations to explore the application of robots in more medical fields based on the robotic system in orthopaedic surgery and jointly promote the deep integration of artificial intelligence in the medical industry. It is reported that by signing the contract, more members will join the “robot” family of Jiangsu Province Hospital. The domestic orthopedic surgical robot jointly developed by the two sides will soon enter the clinic.

Jiangsu Province Hospital, Photo by Hou Yumeng

According to Yin Guoyong, Director of the Department of Orthopedics, the newly developed orthopedic surgical robot is used for open or percutaneous spine surgery, which will help the surgeons to place the surgical implants with the assistance of a robotic arm. The “robot” is designed to improve the pain points in spine surgery, such as “invisible, inaccurate, unstable and high radiation”. Based on artificial intelligence technology and precise control technology, the surgical design will be precisely projected into the real surgical space and guide the doctor to establish the surgical channel. The system will make spine surgery more “accurate”, further reducing the difficulty and risk of surgeries, while reducing intraoperative radiation exposure of doctors and patients, and reducing surgical trauma.

Jiangsu Province Hospital, Photo by Hou Yumeng

It’s reported that the system is also one of the products with the smallest number of carts and the smallest size in the world, which can adapt to all types of orthopedic operating rooms from tertiary to primary hospitals, which will save the operating space. What’s more, the equipment can be transferred by a single person, which will help save manpower in the operating room. It also takes clinical practices into consideration, which increases the convenience of surgery and facilitates its own sterilization and intraoperative aseptic operation.

Correspondent: Yang Xiaolu, Yu Lipeng, Dong Ju

Reporter: Wang Chunxia from Nanjing Daily