Enthusiastic about innovative technology, ERGOSURG has developed into an important engineering and production partner in mechatronics and medical device technology. More than 20 years of experience in development and more than 10 years as an OEM manufacturer form the basis for rapid implementation from the idea to the series product. For our customers we realize product definitions for a fast and secure market success. In addition to the perfect interaction of software, electronics and mechanics - three core competencies within the company - the focus is on quality. From the specification to the project handover, we work according to DIN ISO 9001 and development, production and service are certified according to EN ISO 13485.
Endoscopic imaging provides surgeons with visual information about the patient in addition to their anatomical knowledge and experience.
However, the merging of this information into a model or map of the patient takes place exclusively in the surgeon's head. It can be difficult to determine the exact position in the patient.
Therefore, just as in road traffic, in minimally invasive surgery there is a need for orientation that leads quickly and safely to the destination: With a map of the patient, plannable surgical routes and clearly marked indications for risk areas. The surgeons should always be able to see where they are with their instrument inside the patient.
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To join our team in Ismaning near Munich, we are currently looking for working students in the exciting field of research, development and production of medical devices. Find more details here or send your application to bewerbung@ergosurg.com.
Whenever medical devices are used in the body, for example as surgical instruments, weight, focus and design play an important role in addition to the material. Easy and safe assembly is just as important as verification of sterilisability, preferably in autoclaves. ERGOSURG offers experienced specialists for metals, plastics and glass including the corresponding cleaning agents and sterilization processes. Focusing on sustainability, we strive to realize reusable instruments while representing the interests of our customers.
The user interface is a market-decisive and image-shaping figurehead of a product line. This shows who understands the user best. ERGOSURG realizes customer-specific ergonomic software systems, which safely and efficiently support the workflow of the environment. Decades of experience with the requirements of complex situations, error minimization and the necessity of clear interactions have shaped our concepts.
Medical technology is a competitive market. Ideas are also gladly taken up and promoted by third parties. Availability must therefore be ensured at the time of product announcement. ERGOSURG supports you quickly from the idea to the turnover and ensures the efficient introduction of innovative products into the market. Our own production is subject to production site supervision by NRTL. We know suitable specialists for many processes and offer solutions for product testing, verification and evaluation. We prepare documents for series production and the necessary documents for system certification. In the event of short-term changes, the type, manual, risk analyses and tests are systematically carried along.
To avoid the risk of delays in the market launch in the respective target market, ERGOSURG also carries the approval documents (CE, FDA, etc.) for complex products parallel to development. For more than 15 years we have been developing database systems to minimize the risk of a documentation gap. We know the requirements for the respective target markets and can support you all the way from preparation of the necessary approval documents, handling of harmonized audits to cooperation with notified bodies and preparation of clinical trials.
Joimax® Intracs® em - developed by ERGOSURG
The electromagnetic navigation system provides reliable support for surgeons during minimally-invasive spine procedures. It can be integrated easily into any operating room and connected to the clinic network. Operation of the device is intuitive and user-friendly.
The system is FDA cleared and has won the 2019 Spine Technology Award. Learn more.
The navigation system displays the position and orientation of all tracked instruments relative to the patient anatomy in real-time. Only two X-Rays are taken at the start of the procedure. They are registered to the patient with a simple registration tool, which can be removed after the registration process. During surgery the view provided by the navigation system is similar to a „live“ X-Ray, but without continuous exposure to X-Ray radiation and with the additional advantage that both anterior-posterior and lateral views are updated simultaneously.
Thanks to a sophisticated user guidance system, the required number of necessary interaction steps is minimal. The system anticipates the interaction the surgeon intends, based on the workflow in Spine surgery, and actively facilitates the operation. No further user input is required during the course of the procedure. The system’s simplicity in control is thereby un- paralleled. Preparation time is reduced to a minimum, and there is no need for a disruptive foot pedal.
The navigation system can easily be integrated into any equipment trolley and endoscopy tower. This makes setup fast and simple and ensures there is enough space for ideal access to the surgical site.
The navigation system offers a comprehensive range of options for integration into a clinic network and into a networked operating room, like video inputs and outputs and PACS accessibility.
ERGOSURG develops high-precision navigated instruments in-house. In addition to basic tools, like the Patient-Tracker, Sensor-Wire or Probes, customer-specific solutions for instruments such as seekers, suction tubes, biopsy-needles, dilation tools or endoscopes can be developed.
The instrument’s position is measured at its tip, meaning that accuracy is greatest at exactly the point where it is needed most. Measurements at the tip will be highly accurate even if the remainder of the instrument is deformed.
Due to the electromagnetic measuring principle, the instruments do not require a line of sight to an optical camera. They can be handled easily and in an ergonomic fashion.
All instruments can be sterilized many times by autoclave. Because of the high quality build, there are no special costs incurred by single-use components or instruments that can be sterilized only a few times.
The instruments are manufactured with state-of-the art, high-quality material, e. g. rigid and light titanium, surgical stainless steel, PEEK or bendable and kink-resistant nitinol. The material-selection of all instruments fulfills strict medical requirements.
The extra long connection cable (2.6 m) enables a high degree of flexibility for the OP setup. The navigation system can be positioned at a greater distance from the operating table.
The instrument’s integrity and accuracy are automatically checked during each registration process. Instruments with larger manufacturing tolerances can be calibrated automatically by the navigation software during the instrument registration process. This ensures precise navigation while keeping manufacturing costs low.
There have been live demos of our Spine Navigation System in the Surgical Stadium at NASS 2023, 2022 and various other exhibitions all over the world. Read more here.
Karl-Storz NAV1 - inventend and developed by ERGOSURG
Since 2001 ERGOSURG has been developing optical and electromagnetic navigation systems for Karl-Storz SE & Co. KG.
The electronic Instructions for Use ("e-IFU") for the Karl-Storz NAV1 navigation system and all related accessories are now located at http://ifu.ergosurg.com/.
Interventions in the paranasal sinuses, frontal sinuses, sphenoid sinuses or maxillary sinuses often have to be performed efficiently and in a short chronological order on a day of surgery. A surgical navigation system must be easy to use and intuitively understandable in the respective national language. The preparation time must be short and the instruments must be able to meet the most varied cleaning requirements. Safety features such as distance measurement from risk structures or the deactivation of active instruments prior to contact with the risk structures are just as much a matter of course as convenient intervention planning and documentation.
The optical navigation system uses a highly advanced optical measuring system. Tiny, high-precision glass reflectors are mounted on the navigable instruments. The measuring system detects the position and orientation of the glass reflectors in six spatial degrees of freedom with a high degree of accuracy twenty times per second. This allows for real-time representation of instrument position and orientation.
The patented glass reflectors are produced via a complex manufacturing process with maximum precision. Each instrument is individually tested for compliance with the required level of accuracy. Due to the special glass and a special coating, small glass reflectors (diam. 5 or 10 mm) can be integrated. This keeps the instruments light and easy to use.
All instruments and trackers can be sterilised by autoclave and are reusable. Because of the high quality build, there are no special costs incurred by single-use components or instruments that can be sterilised only a few times.
The unique autoclavable and reusable glass reflectors which ERGOSURG integrates in its surgical instruments are also available for purchase separately.
The reflectors are optimized for use with the NDI Polaris optical tracking cameras, but are compatible with most Image-Guided Surgery systems on the market. They come in different diameters (e.g. 5 mm or 10 mm) and coatings (e.g. for 120° or 240° angle of view), which can also be adjusted depending on the application and tracking system.
All reflectors are shipped pre-assembled in sockets (socket thread 4-40 UNC 2-a), using an autoclavable adhesive connection and biocompatible materials. The socket is compatible with the mounting post of the NDI/BrainLab "Passive Marker Sphere".
The glass spheres reflect much more infrared light than the disposable plastic spheres and thus appear much brighter in the image captured by the optical tracking camera (the 5 mm glass reflectors are approximately as bright as the 13 mm single-use spheres). This allows for higher tracking precision, better handling of trackers with smaller diameter markers and less interferance caused by overlapping markers.
Of course, any contamination can be easily wiped off without having to replace the entire marker.
Contact us for quotes and scale prices.
The ERGOSURG Cardiac Navigation System supports the surgeons’ spatial understanding during catheter-based minimally invasive cardiac surgeries and is based on a tracked navigation mandrin inserted into supported standard catheters or a direct optical tracking of supported standard guidewires/catheters. It visualizes the position and orientation of theses compatible standard catheters in preoperative planning data and/or intraoperative image data of the patient. The system is intended as a further aid to surgeons between the X-rays taken at regular intervals and therefore it can be easily integrated into the surgical setup and its workflow.
Our navigation software is based on highly modular libraries, which we have developed over the years, and which contain all basic functionality, such as instrument tracking, DICOM import-export, processing of medical image data, PACS/network interfaces, etc.
The software is built upon platform-independent libraries and runs on Windows and Linux systems, including the Raspberry Pi.
Navigation works out of the box with optical and electromagnetic tracking technology.
Our software offers a multitude of high-quality visualization options. 2D, 3D and 4D medical image display as well as live-video integration and augmentation are supported.
All visualizations are hardware-accelerated using modern OpenGL and shaders for GPU programming.
We use hardware-accelerated Direct Memory Access (DMA) with OpenGL Pixel Buffer Objects for low-latency video-integration.
This way live video streams can be seamlessly integrated into 2D and 3D scenes, processed and augmented with medical image data.
Our API supports a large variety of framegrabbers, e.g. AVerMedia, Datapath, Epiphan, Magewell, VRmagic, Yuan.
The whole robot weights only 4 kg - this includes the base with the suction cups and the battery pack!
Raambo can easily be picked up by hand and moved around.
All power and control electronics are built directly into the robot. The entire robot is battery-powered and self-contained; no bulky external components are required.
Despite its light weight the Raambo robot is a small powerhouse. It can lift up to 2.5 kg on an outstretched arm.
The modular 3D-printed design of the Raambo robot allows individual customization and fast adaptation to your needs.
The robot can simply be connected to any computer via USB. This allows control without programming knowledge using simple commands via a terminal. In addition to the USB connection, control via Bluetooth and WLAN is also possible using small additional modules.
With the simple teaching mode, the robot can be programmed in a matter of seconds. And this can also be done by non-technical people - in other words, by anyone.
By attaching our optical marker spheres to the end effector and/or the robot's limbs, the robot is able to adaptively track hand-held instruments to the patient's movement or align them with other instruments. Thanks to the modular design, this is possible within a very short time.
Our robots don't always look like traditional robots. They can also be built to be very application-specific, as in the example of the Navigation Camera Assist (NCA), which automatically aligns the navigation camera with the optical patient tracker, making the adjustment of the camera very user-friendly. The NCA was developed by Ergosurg and has been in production for Karl-Storz since 2015.
Another example is a very small neurorobot that supports the insertion of cannulas in neurosurgery. An application where a large robot is out of the question.
