The Google Glass Technology The Google Glass is a small, lightweight wearable computer with a transparent display for hands-free work. Google Glass and other innovations allow the teaching of medical
Inside the Global Operating Room
LASIK EYE SURGERY; WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
LASIK is the most commonly performed laser eye surgery to treat myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (farsightedness) and astigmatism. The word “LASIK” is an acronym for “laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis.” Like other types of refractive surgery
Doctors Learn The Nuts And Bolts Of Robotic Surgery
Across the country, surgeons are learning to use more than just scalpels and forceps. In the past decade, a growing number of medical institutions have invested in the da Vinci
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Snapchat Surgery: The Doctors Sending Video Updates Mid-Operation
Though it was only a minor surgery, Dawn Lipthrott says there’s really no such thing when it’s being performed on a loved one, especially when the patient is over the age
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The First Virtual Reality App for Live Operating Room Experiences
A virtual reality app developed by GIBLIB will allow medical students to experience an operating room environment. Every surgery is a complex event both for the patient and the team
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Indian cardiologist performs world’s first telerobotic surgery from a distance of 32 km
Telerobotic surgery will be commercialized for a timely and specialized treatment of cardiovascular patients with geographical barriers. India became the world’s first to successfully perform a telerobotic coronary intervention on
Virtual reality and the changing face of surgery
Diane Jooris is pioneering research into VR for patients (Oncomfort) Two medical specialists talk about how they are using VR for both doctors and patients in surgery. Virtual reality was first introduced
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Sales Reps May Be Wearing Out Their Welcome In The Operating Room
(John Fedele/Getty Images) In the operating room, surgical masks and matching scrubs can make it hard to tell who’s who — at least for outsiders. Patients getting wheeled in might
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Operating room of the future features less clutter, more technology
A joint research team including faculty from Clemson University and the Medical University of South Carolina has unveiled a high-fidelity, mock operating room at the Clemson Design Center in Charleston.
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Classification of Surgery
ACCORDING TO DEGREE OF RISK Major – High degree of risk. May be complicated /prolonged, large losses of blood may occur, vital organs be involved, post-op complications may be likely.
New Surgeon in the OR: Titan Medical’s SPORT
Is Titan’s SPORT going to storm the robotic surgery market? The darling of ORs everywhere: Intuitive Surgical In 2000 Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) went public at $9 a share dazzling Wall Street with
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Digital Surgery touts artificial intelligence for the operating room
Digital Surgery (LONDON), a health tech company shaping the future of surgery through the convergence of surgical expertise and technology, today announced it has developed and successfully demonstrated the world’s
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The world’s largest ambulance (and the world’s smallest X-ray unit)
By Mike Hanlon “Scalpel please! ” is a sentence that might in future not only be heard in a hospital operating theatre, but also in one of the three new,
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The Future of Surgical Technology
The future of surgery offers an amazing cooperation between humans and technology, which could elevate the level of precision and efficiency of surgeries so high we have never seen before.