The Benefit of Force Feedback in Surgery: Examination of Blunt Dissection

Manish Mehta Group 5: Haptic Interface CIS II: Paper Critical Review Selected Paper The Benefit of Force Feedback in Surgery: Examination of Blunt Dissection. Christopher R. Wagner, Nicholas Stylopoulos, Patrick G. Jackson, and Robert D. Howe. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 2007 16:3, 252-262 Project Background and Paper Relevance I am part of group 5, and our project is creating the haptic interface for a surgical manipulator. Total hip replacement surgery is an extremely popular surgery in the United States. It is not without issues, however. Over time, hip implants begin to degrade the surrounding bone and cause resorption in a process known as osteolysis. To prevent the integrity of the entire bone from being compromised, revision surgery is performed in which the surgeon inserts a tool through a screw hole made for the hip replacement surgery and removes the degraded bone. The screw hole insertion limits the surgeon’s movement. Additionally, the operating site is difficult to visualize because of the minimally-invasive nature of the surgery and requires the use of fluoroscopy to update the surgeon on the progress of the surgery. This results in less than optimal coverage of the lesion. The manipulator is intended to make hip revision surgery more efficacious by allowing greater coverage of the lesion.