Abstract
Treating the supracondylar humerus fracture, a very common elbow’s injury, can be very challenging for pediatric orthopedic surgeons. Actually, using the pinning technique to treat it leads sometimes to many neurological and vascular complications. Furthermore, the medical staff faces a serious danger when performing such surgeries because of the recurrent exposure to harmful radiations emitted by the fluoroscopic C-arm. Considering these issues, a national project was launched to create a new robotic platform, baptized BROS, to automate the supracondylar humerus fracture’s treatment and remedy the said issues. This chapter introduces this new robotic platform and uses a real case to prove the relevance and safety of BROS.
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This research work is carried out within a MOBIDOC PhD thesis of the PASRI program, EU-funded and administered by ANPR (Tunisia). The BROS national project is a collaboration between the Children Hospital of Bchir Hamza (Tunis), eHTC and INSAT (LISI Laboratory) in Tunisia. We thank the medical staff, Prof.Dr.med. Mahmoud Smida (Head of Child and Adolescent Orthopedics Service) and Dr.med. Zied Jlalia, for their fruitful collaboration and continuous medical support. A second paper is submitted in the conference for the modeling and verification of BROS.
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Ben Salem, M.O., Mosbahi, O., Khalgui, M., Frey, G. (2015). Towards a Safer and More Optimal Treatment of the Supracondylar Humerus Fracture. In: Fred, A., Gamboa, H., Elias, D. (eds) Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies. BIOSTEC 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 574. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27707-3_25
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