Programme
07.30 – Registration and welcome coffee
09.00 – Introduction & Welcome – Pieter-Jan Vandekerckhove
09.10 – Preparing my OR for RA-TKA:
- 09.10 – How to set up my OR to create a workflow efficiency- A team effort – Benjamin Bloch
- 09.25 – Mapping my knee for Robotics. Tips, tricks and pitfalls – Thomas Luyckx
- 09.35 – What about image based vs imageless? – Hannes Vermue
- 09.45 – Discussion
10.00 – The impact of Robotics on the learning curve of surgeons
- 10.00 – What is our learning curve and how we optimize it? – Luc Vanlommel
- 10.10 – Do Robotics impact your alignment and balancing strategies? – Survey Vlaanderen
- 10.20 – Discussion
10.30 – Coffee Break and visit of the exhibitors
11.00 – Planning my TKA with robotics
- 11.00 – General principles in planning my TKA: Balancing the Coronal, sagittal and axial plane – Fabio Catani
- 11.25 – Discussion
11.35 – Balancing my TKA with robotics
- 11.35 – Basic principles: The impact of 2-phase balancing when performing a Robotic TKA – Pieter-Jan Vandekerckhove
- 11.45 – Balancing the typical varus knee – Benjamin Bloch
- 12.00 – Balancing the typical valgus knee – Thomas Luyckx
- 12.15 – Discussion
12.40 – Lunchsymposia + industry
13.45 – The benefits of Robotic-Assisted TKA:
13.45 – The impact of bone resections, implant choice and Alignment – Pieter-Jan Vandekerckhove
13.55 – Reconstructing your phenotype: The (future) impact of Robotics – Michael Hirschmann
14.20 – What are the long-term results of Robotics – William Colyn
14.35 – Discussion
14.50 – The future of robotics
14.50 – Will we still train manual TKA? Robotics as a teaching tool for residents – Stefaan Van Onsem
15.00 – The future of Robotics : AI & Machine learning – Lennert Schijs
15.15 – Discussion
15.30 – Closing – Thomas Luyckx
15.40 – Farewell drink