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OrthoPilot® Elite is based on innovative technology and over 20 years of experience. That combination takes standards of surgical precision to a new level.

Many healthcare professionals are motivated by the desire to help people live better, more pain-free lives. In orthopaedics, precision sets the standard for quality of life: a few millimeters or a few degrees often determine the long-term success of a procedure.

Technology creates a solid foundation.

The surgeon makes the difference.

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OrthoPilot® Elite and Multitool – Winner of the RedDot Design Award.

The multifunctional instrument was developed specifically for assisted navigation with the OrthoPilot® Elite and TKA 6.0 software, to help speed up processes and significantly improve ergonomic function.

This award-winning blend combines several individual instruments into one, with a customizable software workflow providing simple, intuitive handling allowing surgeons to operate precisely and ergonomically.

OrthoPilot® Elite gives surgeons exact, continuous feedback on implant and instrument positions, so you can make the right decisions based on even more solid information. The entire control is in the palm of your hand.

HOW CAN ORTHOPILOT® BENEFIT YOU?

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TKA 6.0 – A new surgical experience

3 different Man-Machine-Interfaces.

3 possibilities of software interaction to fully adapt the system to each surgeon's individual preference:

Multitool
Foot switch
Gesture control

Customizable software workflow.

TKA 6.0 offers a personalised workflow, whether soft tissue management or tibial rotation.

Navigation and various other options can be set and stored in your individual surgeon profile.

Reduced number of instruments and instrument changes.

Streamlined software concept with improved navigation instrumentation that simplifies the workflow.
The reduced number of required instruments and reduced instrument changes speeds up the process of data acquisition.

^{[1] A comparison between the new TKA 6 software application and a predecessing version of TKA software application showed a significant time reduction in data acquisition of 28%. Source: Lampe et al., Cogent Engineering (2017),4:1401440.}

Knee kinematic module.

Shows the kinematic behaviour of the knee joint in different stages of the surgery.
Allows study of the varus/valgus laxity of the knee along the full range of motion.
Depicts every single degree of flexion of the corresponding varus/valgus deviation.
Contact points of projected femoral condyles onto the tibial plane over the range of motion are displayed.
Kinematic measurements can be performed at different stages in surgery e.g., the initial situation prior to any corrective measures such as bone cuts or ligament releases v post op situation.
The knee kinematic module is especially suited for study or research purposes.

Hip center acquisition.

TKA 6.0 features a brand-new hip center acquisition movement to further simplify and accelerate the process of acquiring this essential reference for component alignment.
The robust algorithm only requires one vertical movement as well as an abduction of the femur to compute the center of the hip joint. Hip center acquisition has never been so quick and easy.

Take over control: The new Multitool.

The Multitool – a new multifunctional instrument that combines 4 instruments in 1 – serves as one possible man-machine-interface to control TKA 6.0. By combining cutting-edge technology with simple, intuitive handling the Multitool allows surgeons to operate flexible, precisely and ergonomically. Due to its‘ smart click-mechanism the footswitch becomes obsolete.

The entire control is in the palm of your hand.

Reduced invasiveness: Monocortical transmitter fixation.

A new monocortical 2-Pin-fixation for the navigation transmitters reduces invasiveness and improves transmitter visibility. 3.2 mm pins in different lengths allow to respect the individual soft tissue situation and can be placed either through separate stab incisions or even within the incision (e. g. on the femur). Four different adapter positions and a 180° swing angle facilitate the transmitter orientation to the stereo-optical camera system and reduce efforts in camera positioning.

Precise and easy: The cut alignment instrument.

Aligning the cutting guide for the distal femur or proximal tibia resection has never been so easy. This optional instrument can be simply plugged into the corresponding cutting guide and roughly positioned in the desired cutting height. Further fine-tuning is done millimeter by millimeter and degree by degree. In doing so, all three degrees of freedom – varus/valgus-alignment, slope and cutting height – can be taken into account step by step.