Over the past 10 years, robotically-assisted surgery has become more popular. Unlike the assumption that robotic surgical procedure may not lead to retaining foreign objects within the patient’s body, ECRI Institute Patient Safety Organization (PSO) informed that foreign objects may sometimes be retained even during robotic surgical procedure.
Blue Belt Technologies declared the first clinical use of the NavioPFS system in a Unicompartmental Knee Replacement (UKR). This novel system has its first use in the knee replacement surgery performed by Professor Johan Bellemans on July 10, 2012 at the University Hospital at Pellenberg, Belgium.
Reportlinker has declared that a new market research report titled ‘Remote Patient Monitoring Devices Market to 2017 - Chronic Disease Prevalence and Government Curbs on Hospital Spending to Drive the Market’ has been added to its catalogue.
According to a report published in Telemedicine and e-Health, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert states that the hospital’s intensive care units (ICUs) employ remote presence robots, through which critical care physicians can foster on-site patient visits as well as develop patient interactions more frequently.
A new collaboration between Mimic Technologies and Florida Hospital Celebration Health will complement the renowned Nicholson Center with the addition of the latest robotic simulation training technology. Following this agreement, surgeons using da Vinci robot will have access to better surgical training.
Robotic-assisted surgery on the bladder base of a 7-year old child was successfully performed at Apollo Hospitals, following the damage to the child’s urethra in a road accident.
NYU Langone Medical Center’s Cardiothoracic Surgery Department has concluded its first year of providing endoscopic robotic mitral valve repair surgery for its patients. This procedure was initiated in 2011 spring by Dr. Didier F. Loulmet, at the medical center.
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital for the first time conducted a da Vinci robot-based distal pancreatectomy and splenectomy for Eugene Allen, a 60-year-old patient diagnosed with precancerous cyst in his pancreas.
Health Robotics declared that offsite Batch Sterile Compounding Centers are becoming a major trend in the efforts carried out by USA's hospital pharmacies to reduce the IVs price premiums which are being incurred with companies like Ameridose and Pharmedium for custom IV production as well as for Pre-Mix/Frozen solutions with Baxter, Hospira and B.Braun.
Mazor Robotics declared that its Renaissance system has been procured by Florida Hospital for Children in Orlando, Florida. Renaissance is Mazor’s advanced robotic surgical guidance system effective for spine surgeries. This highly-featured platform is a unique robotic technology specifically developed for spine surgery.
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