Keywords: Invasive Surgery
02/14/2010
Twitter in the operating theater
In 2009, a handful of hospitals began to use Twitter to promote live surgeries. Broadcasts of surgical procedures using the Internet has proliferated with the almost universal …
01/28/2010
Your map of anaesthesia
Dräger SmartPilot View is a software, which, for the first time, provides a two-dimensional representation of the current and the forecasted course of anaesthesia. Similar to a …
11/21/2009
First clinical use of new Z Align tool
The new Z Align, a function of the Callisto eye, which is part of the Zeiss Toric Solution for implantation of toric IOLs in patients with astigmatism, is set for first clinical …
11/21/2009
Aneurysm - Coil, surgery or clip?
A young singer leans against the mixing desk in a recording studio in a laid-back manner. She listens to songs just recorded for her new album, moving her lips to the sound. …
11/21/2009
Mobile surgical services
The mobile healthcare provider Vanguard Healthcare, which reports unprecedented success in the UK in recent years, is planning to expand into the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, …
11/21/2009
Nonin's Equanox brings novel design to oximetry
What is good for the body may not be good for the mind. In an effort to repair heart damage with bypass surgery patients may experience unintended cerebral damage, including …
11/20/2009
Olympus is offering LESS Surgery
Laparo-Endoscopic Single-Site Surgery (LESS Surgery) is one of the most significant innovations in medical technology. Olympus is now one of the first providers in the world to …
11/12/2009
The 2009 Organ Donation Congress
In 2008, EU organ transplants totalled 27,809, but, as of 31 December 2008, patients still on waiting lists numbered 63,283 and 3,812 of them died on that list. During 5th World …
10/29/2009
Benefits of surgery for prostate cancer
According to a major recent study, appearing in the July 27 issue of the "Journal of Clinical Oncology," there is a definite downstaging trend for prostate cancer. The study, …
07/21/2009
Revolutionary approach to heart failure
British girl Hannah Clark who was given an extra heart as a toddler has become the worlds first heart transplant patient to make a full recovery after having her donor organ …
05/01/2009
Congenital cardiac surgery in Russia
Last year a special cardiac surgery department was opened in the Filatov Childrens Hospital in Moscow. Until then, the only one in all of Russia was at the Childrens Hospital …
05/01/2009
Paediatricians for children in disasters and wars
Leonid Roshal: We are at the beginning of a long road …
05/01/2009
Treating obesity surgically
Professor Rudolf A Weiner, head of the surgical department at Sachsenhausen Hospital, Germany, reports that some developing procedures result not only result in weight loss but …
05/01/2009
Robots yes, but lets keep the patient in full focus
Surgeons using technology-supported surgical systems, e.g. lasers and robotics, are challenged not to lose sight of the human element, which influenced the theme Humanity through …
03/01/2009
Saving the feet of diabetics
The hugely increasing numbers of diabetics is a medical and financial burden worldwide. Diabetics can, for example, suffer eye and kidney problems and more five percent of them …
02/20/2009
New treatment methods for chronic wounds on horizon
A wound compress is being developed at the Hohenstein Institute in Boennigheim, Germany, that could pave the way for new treatment opportunities. The new wound compress would …
12/20/2008
The DGU trauma network
German pre-clinical and clinical trauma care of severely injured people enjoys an excellent reputation nationally and internationally due to the countrys intensive work in …
12/20/2008
Surgical lights gain LED technology
The popularity of LED lighting units is inevitably increasing because LED light is infrared-free and cool, creating good work conditions for surgeons, and minimising the danger of …
11/21/2008
Lifebridge B2T
Worldwide interest in portable systems for cardiopulmonary support has grown significantly. While some systems are at the brink of market introduction, German company Lifebridge …
11/20/2008
Computer assisted surgery, a synonym for new techniques being pursued in clinical practice
Surgical interventions are not radically altered by computer assistance but the quality and quantity of diagnostic information is continuously increasing leading to more …
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