Not all clinical situations are good candidates for guided surgery. In fact, there are several clinical situations in that guides are either contraindicated or require different guide strategies to ensure clinical success. We will discuss some scenarios that should give surgeons pause to automatically have a guide fabricated. It is dangerous to get in the mindset of being guided 100% of the time. This presentation will showcase examples where guides are the WRONG choice, and how other approaches may be more appropriate.
Speaker Disclosure: This speaker has no financial disclosure to report.
Learning Objectives:
Identify clinical situations where guided surgery is contraindicated
Identify clinical situations where surgeons need to think outside the box for using guides to maximum success
Mitigate guide complications by seeing them ahead of time and not realizing the complications too late
