Professor of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery at Warwick Medical School, Professor Damian Griffin said, “KingMark has removed all of the uncertainty about scaling digital radiographs for hip replacement. Our radiographers find it easy to use, and I can be confident that the measurements I make on scaled radiographs are correct. It is now unusual for my pre-operative templating not to be exactly right.”
Orthopedic surgeon at UHCW, Mr. Steve Krikler added, “Since changing to KingMark I have found the acetabular cup size to be very accurately predicted from the template, and the femoral size is also much more accurately predicted. I am now much more confident in choosing the stem offset and other parameters which are within my control. I always template my arthroplasties in TraumaCad and I will only accept pre-operative images which include KingMark.”
Warwick Ventures (who deal with the commercialization of the University’s intellectual property) approached Voyant Health, the makers of TraumaCad. The company saw the immense potential for the product to address one of the main concerns in pre-operative planning—accurate positioning of calibration markers. Immediately, Voyant Health secured exclusive, global distribution rights to this patented technology.
“Before KingMark, accurate calibration relied on a single marker being exactly located in the coronal plane of the hips, requiring special expertise and extra time from technicians,” said Adam Ehrenraich, M.D., Vice President of Clinical Solutions at Voyant Health. “KingMark is quick and easy to position correctly, even on very large pa
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