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St. Luke’s Hospital Acquires Pioneering Technology From BrainLAB

17 hours ago ago from Windy City News » Chicago Headlines

VectorVision(R) flex with TraumaCad(TM) from Voyant Health Offers Orthopedic Surgeons Increased Accuracy and Improved Workflow BrainLAB, a manufacturer of software-driven systems for targeted, less-invasive medical treatments, announced today that St. Luke's Hospital in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has acquired VectorVision® flex, a powerful computer-assisted surgery (CAS) system featuring Digital Lightbox© with TraumaCad(TM), a pre-operative ...

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Hoag Hospital In Newport Beach Is Named One of the Nation's Top Cardiovascular Hospitals

20 hours ago ago from The Medical Quack

In my opinion, one of the first items I want to know ahead of time is which hospitals have an interventional cardiologist or interventional radiologist available at any time. Not too long ago I had mentioned that UCI Irvine here in Orange County has one 24/7. Hoag Hospital is right up there with this recognition and has been adding new technology and care to the facility. Every room almost has an ocean view and is private, it has been that ...

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Not an early adopter

6 hours ago ago from Running a hospital

#IHI09 Following a wrong side surgery a year-and-a-half ago, an interdisciplinary team of our staff revamped our pre-surgical protocol and developed training materials for all OR staff. Here is a sequence of excerpts of recent emails on the topic. Please rest assured that this doctor is in a distinct minority, at least in our hospital. Unfortunately, I heard reports at the IHI National Forum from people in other hospitals that his view ...

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Reviewing Robotic Systems Used in Surgery | Robotics Made Easy

15 hours ago ago from Robotics Made Easy

Robotics Made Easy Home Spykee RObot CCTV Spy Is This the Next Super Robot? RF Robot Kit Reviewing Robotic Systems Used in Surgery Despite costing $1.5 million per unit, the Da Vinci robotic system is turning heads in hospitals across America. The addition of robotic systems in operating rooms promises more precise surgeries, less damage to the surrounding tissues, smaller incisions, less blood loss, ...

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Robot Surgeons and Joystick Heart Surgeries

22 hours ago ago from Disinformation

Video in this article shows the a miniature mobile robot that delivers therapy to the surface of a beating heart using a joystick ! Like the Star Wars 2-1B series medical droid, real medical robots can now provide surgery that's minimally invasive or even performed remotely while offering greater precision, decreased blood loss, and smaller incisions with quicker healing time and less pain. Other examples include the ViRob, a tiny ...

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Quick, Quiet and Out of Sight, Hospital’s Pneumatic Tube System is a Medical Care Superhighway

19 hours ago ago from Good News Now

One of the most important working parts of Stanford Hospital is practically invisible ― and its invention dates back more than 200 years. Seven thousand times a day, in four miles of tubing laced efficiently behind walls from basement to rooftop, a pneumatic tube system shuttles foot-long containers carrying everything from blood to medication. In a hospital the size of Stanford, where a quarter-mile’s distance might separate a tissue ...

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Hoag Hospital Named One of the Nation's Top Cardiovascular Hospitals by Thomson Reuters

17 hours ago ago from Good News Now

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Dec. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Hoag Hospital has been named one of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals(R) for cardiovascular care by Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters' annual study -- 100 Top Hospitals: Cardiovascular Benchmarks -- examined the performance of 971 hospitals by analyzing clinical outcomes for patients diagnosed with heart failure and heart attacks and for those who received coronary bypass surgery or ...

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