'Live' Web Cast Opportunity to View Knee Replacement Computer-Assisted Surgery From West Palm Beach Hospital

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Jan. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Web viewers will have a unique opportunity this Friday, January 5 from 8:00-9:00 AM EST (13.00-14.00 UTC/GMT) when they can witness a "live" knee replacement surgical procedure that will employ state-of-the-art knee replacement and Computer-Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery (CAOS) systems.

Originating from Good Samaritan Medical Center of West Palm Beach, Florida, the surgery will be performed by noted orthopaedic surgeon W. Andrew Hodge, M.D. Dr. Hodge, Director of Orthopaedic Research Laboratory for the center, will replace a patient's knee with the 3DKnee(TM) System while being guided by the ORTHOsoft Navitrack(R) Navigation System. The benefit to patients from using these advanced technologies is highly accurate positioning of more durable knee replacements and shorter post-surgery recovery time.

To see the "live" Web casted procedure visit http://www.encoremed.com/ and click on the Web cast link at the bottom of the page.

To schedule interviews with W. Andrew Hodge, M.D. contact Deirdre Sykes Shapiro at 561.585.1418 or e-mail deirdresshapiro@bellsouth.net .

For more information about ORTHOsoft's Navitrack(R) Navigation System visit: http://www.orthosoft.ca/ .

About Dr. Hodge

W. Andrew Hodge, M.D., FACS, is a world-renowned orthopaedic surgeon, specializing in arthritis surgery and bioengineering research. In Boston, he completed special fellowship training at both Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While performing surgery, research, and teaching in the Harvard/MIT system at Mass General Hospital, he created the BioMotion Laboratory. In 1987, Dr. Hodge founded the BioMotion Foundation, a non-profit organization to support orthopaedic and related research and education.

Dr. Hodge holds several U.S. patents on orthopaedic implants and devices, such as the 3D (Data Driven Design) Knee(TM), a knee replacement with increased strength, motion and durability. He has also published more than 100 articles in medical journals and his accomplishments have been presented in Science Magazine and on CNN, the Discovery Channel and local, national and international televised news programs.

About ORTHOsoft

ORTHOsoft Holdings Inc. ( http://www.orthosoft.ca/ ), based in Montreal, Canada, designs and develops multi-platform surgical navigation systems (Navitrack(R)) for the growing Computer-Assisted Orthopedic Surgery (CAOS) market. ORTHOsoft's knee, hip and spine applications, which are intuitive and easy to use because they follow traditional surgical flow, provide surgeons with real-time data that improve both surgical process and patient outcomes. To date, Navitrack(R) has supported more than 35,000 surgical procedures in North America and Europe.