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Keynote to track trends affecting ORs
Which surgical services are likely to grow and which are likely to migrate? What is coming in new technology? If you're adding or renovating ORs, how can you plan for an "OR chassis" that will adapt to changing needs? Fred Bentley, MPP, MPH In the keynote at the OR Business…
Cholecystectomy with no external incisions
For the first time in the US, surgeons at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/ Columbia University Medical Center in July removed a woman's gallbladder without any external incisions. Using the technique called NOTES (natural-orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery), a team of surgeons led by Marc Bessler, MD, inserted a flexible endoscope into the…
Study: RFID has the potential to interfere with medical devices
Radio frequency identification systems (RFID) have the potential to cause critical patient equipment to malfunction, Dutch researchers report in the June 25 JAMA The researchers tested 2 types of RFID systems in a nonclinical setting with 41 medical devices such as external pacemakers, ventilators, infusion pumps, and anesthesia devices. There…
NOTES: A new way of performing surgery using natural body orifices
Removing the gallbladder through the vagina. Performing an appendectomy through the mouth. Doing an abdominal exploration through the rectum. It is a startling concept, but physicians are exploring new ways to perform surgery using the body's natural openings. Many questions remain, but researchers believe the approach holds promise of a…
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