New Ergonomic Lithotripsy System

A new lithotripsy system for urology is designed to offer the highest flexibility in patient positioning and treatment and to provide new ergonomic features for clinicians.

The Modularis VarioStar, developed to offer flexibility for a broad range of urologic
procedures, is equipped with a head that can be moved into undertable and overtable positions, and also to provide a high degree of angulation freedom for conventional and case-specific stone treatment. A rotating therapy head is included in the design plan to allow ureter stones to be disintegrated as the patient lies in a comfortable supine position. A special alignment control is integrated into the therapy head, in order to monitor the relative position of the lithotripsy module to the C-arm. In case of a misalignment, an optical or audible signal is designed to warn the operator to interrupt treatment.

The system was developed to be combined with the majority of other mobile C-arms from the same manufacturer and to be controlled by a central hand control, including motorized stone localization. Additionally, its universal coupling bridge was developed to allow the system to be compatible with other manufacturers' C-arms as well.

When configuring the system, medical facilities will be able to choose from two lithotripsy modules: the Modularis VarioStar, with flexible therapy positions, and the Lithostar Modularis Vario, an economical version for undertable treatments. The systems are not yet commercially available in the United States.

The Modularis Variostar is the product of Siemens Medical Solutions (Erlangen, Germany). Since Siemens' Arcadis C-arms feature the proprietary software platform syngo, all network functions are designed on the system, including LithoReport for patient data management.



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