First Cases in Japan with Medacta NextAR

Medacta announced the first surgeries to be performed in Japan with its NextAR™ Augmented Reality Surgical Platform. The company describes NextAR as the first surgical platform to offer personalized augmented reality solutions for both joint replacement and spine procedures, leveraging patient-specific, unique real-time data to efficiently complement operative workflow.

NextAR comprises the NextAR Knee, NextAR Shoulder and NextAR Spine. Through 3D planning tools, a compact single-use tracking system and augmented reality, NextAR enables data-driven decision-making allowing the surgeon to perform personalized procedures based on each patient’s unique anatomy and biomechanics. These insights are displayed through the NextAR Smart Glasses directly onto the operative field to give the surgeon enhanced visualization and control during the procedure.

The NextAR platform is offered as a hardware system with limited capital investment and single-use instrumentation at a low cost per case and offers the ability to host software for multiple applications. The platform represents an optimal solution worldwide, particularly for U.S. Ambulatory Surgery Centers. NextAR is part of Medacta’s MySolutions Personalized Ecosystem, a network of digital solutions designed to improve patient outcomes and healthcare efficiency.

Source: Medacta