SamGMU: Device for removing fragments from the body

2023: Product Announcement

Specialists of the Engineering Center of Samara State Medical University and the Main Military Clinical Hospital named after Academician N. N. Burdenko have developed a device for removing fragments from the patient's body using an electromagnet. The device works under the control of the first Russian surgical navigation system AUTOPLAN. This was reported in the press service of the university at the end of August 2023.

According to the developers, by loading the results into the AUTOPLAN surgical navigation system, CT you can combine them with a 3D model of the patient's anatomical structure and determine the location of metal fragments with high accuracy. Specialists of the hospital named after N. N. Burdenko, in turn, proposed the concept of technology: an electromagnetic device with which the detected metal fragments under the control of the navigation system will be removed from the body without the use of medical instruments.

Device for removing fragments from the patient's body using an electromagnet

This method allows military doctors not to resort to open surgery and calculate the size of the necessary holes depending on the size of the fragments. The joint use of the surgical magnet and the AUTOPLAN surgical navigation system, initiated by the specialists of the N.N. Burdenko Hospital, will significantly reduce the trauma of surgical interventions in patients with shrapnel wounds by increasing the accuracy of the intervention and understanding the shape of the foreign body, and thereby speed up the process of postoperative recovery of patients.

Based on our innovative product, which is already successfully used in Russian medical institutions and, in fact, is the core of the modern "smart operating room," we have jointly developed an original solution. The capabilities of the AUTOPLAN surgical navigation system allow you to successfully solve non-trivial problems in various fields of medicine, including military. And we are open to wide cooperation to find new directions for using AUTOPLAN in the interests of patients, "said Sergey Chaplygin, director of the Institute for Innovative Development of SamGMU.[1]

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