VELYS TKA

First one implanted last week.

Congrats to our great leadership for being last to market with non-competitive technology!

But, hey! Good news is we can’t fuck this up any worse than Zimmer did with ROSA. This is basically a two robot race between Mako and Navio, going forward, unless we pull our heads out of our asses and buy Corin.

 

My facility in chicago just put the Navio on the loading dock. If you say so.

 

MAKO


Navio









ROSA

Is the current robot hierarchy. Who knows what Velys really is. Depuy reps have been telling their surgeons for 8 years that robots are pointless and to trust their little plastic sheets and C-arm. No problems with Attune, doc! Look at our registry data! The knees you’ve been pulling out were just cemented in wrong!

Now they have something that attaches to the table and want to compete in .5 degree and sub-millimeter technology?

good luck, guys. And congrats on being 4th to market.

 

This technology misses the mark in both pinpoint accuracy and the Attune.

 

I’m old enough to remember 3 years ago when leadership was pushing the “robotics is nothing but a gimmick” campaign.

We look desperate.

 

For me the most embarrassing thing is the dude who keeps trying to push Corin as a solution to anything!

They should get sued for even trying to call that gnarly old Praxiteles thing a “robot”

At least it makes Velys look sexy AF.

ROSA is the biggest clunker out there and Navio never did shift the needle for SNN. Our biggest problem is still Attune. The patients where they come loose are the lucky ones. The ones that stay in are pumping cobalt ions into people and making them sick.

 

you got a citation for the latter statement there, chief?

and anyway who cares about some loose tibias? Every company has had issues at some point or another. Poor cementing technique was the real problem and We got the new baseplate out anyway and my docs couldn’t be happier with it.

 

maybe the dumbest thing I’ve seen on here. Corin understands SP relationship with total hip. Velys with that tech might be worth selling. As it stands now, it’s just something that our current anterior hip users can play with if they want to.

it will do ZERO as far as moving the needle from mako over to our side.

zero.

 

^Reality. Depuy leadership has apparently decided that there is only one approach to THA, and that’s all well and good, except for the fact that nearly half of all total hips still go in through the posterior approach, and addressing pelvic rollback is key to competing in that space….especially when everything coming from the podium is centered around robotics and spine pelvic relationship, for those of you who don’t attend AAHKS or only go to AAOS to have dinner….

 

So it attaches to a bed rail, doesn’t use any imaging or mapping, has a saw without haptic boundaries, and puts in the worst performing knee of all the big boys…. Sounds like a winner. I’m sure they will place some with their consultants but going to be tough to convert business with that thing. The also say it saves space but with the new cart it’s almost as big as mako/rosa.

mako is market leader.
Rosa is making a big push with arguably a better implant
Cori is a space saving burr and nave but not really a robot. J2 is a pretty good knee

don’t see Velys filling a void left by those

 

Tell that to the dozens of patients I have been in the room that had to have that dogshit implant revised. When I quit that dumpster fire of a company when my distributor went direct was so satisfying.

 

congrats on being a traitor? We got through the ASR witch hunt and we’ve breezed through the attune baseplates issue with barely a blip. Velys may not be as advanced as mako, but all Docs really care about is being able to market robotics. It’s something they can put on their website to drive patients through their clinic doors. We’ll sell Velys at half the cost of mako and take market share easily.

 

Doc before you and your partners buy a mako you need to see our thing that is Kleser accurate, attaches to the table rail, and stays in your way the entire case….please?

 

Surely Velys will put in unis, hips and shoulders?

 

it will help them properly cement in Attune…

 

Yes but only through an anterior approach

 

traitor.. just stop. I have been in far to many rooms watching those tibias be revised only to have the "manager" scratch his head, say ahhhh fuck another one, than literally make up whatever bullshit he needed to do to calm down the surgeon and move on.

Velys is more garbage and an embarrassment to flaunt. Awesome 3rd to market on something no one else would touch. Luckily I was only with this shit show for less than a decade and young enough where it was merely a stepping stone to get a real device job where I don't need to sit in the OR 12 hours a day or babysit my cover reps. Thanks for the decent pay and great resume builder lol. Stryker even pays less and murders you on market share. You all are suckers.

 

Heard that a surgeon using Velys bagged the popliteal artery today and the patient had to be transferred.

piece of shit “technology”.