“Operating rooms used to be places with limited access, the domain of medical professionals and their patients. Now operating rooms are opening up, offering the world invitations to watch when surgeons go to work.
Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach has shown two surgical procedures live over the Internet since April, and it plans to air a third operation — a lapband procedure — in the fall.”
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Linda S. Humphrey, Orlando Sentinel, 27 July 2008
Tagged: internet and surgery
; posted on Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 at 10:51 am
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“Background: We developed a prototype electronic clinical information system called the Surgical Intensive Care-Infection Registry (SIC-IR) to prospectively study infectious complications and monitor quality of care improvement programs in the surgical and trauma intensive care unit. The objective of this study was to validate SIC-IR as a successful health information technology with an accurate clinical data repository.
Study Design: Using the DeLone and McLean Model of Information Systems Success as a framework, we evaluated SIC-IR in a 3-month prospective crossover study of physician use in one of our two surgical and trauma intensive care units (SIC-IR unit versus non SIC-IR unit). Three simultaneous research methodologies were used: a user survey study, a pair of time-motion studies, and an accuracy study of SIC-IR’s clinical data repository.
Results: The SIC-IR user survey results were positive for system reliability, graphic user interface, efficiency, and overall benefit to patient care. There was a significant decrease in prerounding time of nearly 4 minutes per patient on the SIC-IR unit compared with the non SIC-IR unit. The SIC-IR documentation and data archiving was accurate 74% to 100% of the time depending on the data entry method used. This accuracy was significantly improved compared with normal hand-written documentation on the non SIC-IR unit.
Conclusions: SIC-IR proved to be a useful application both at individual user and organizational levels and will serve as an accurate tool to conduct prospective research and monitor quality of care improvement programs.”
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Joseph F. Golob Jr, Adam M.A. Fadlalla, Justin A. Kan, Nilam P. Patel, Charles J. Yowler and Jeffrey A. Claridge, Journal of the American College of Surgeons, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 24 June 2008, doi:10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2008.04.025
Tagged: Health Information Technology, hospitals and surgery
; posted on Friday, June 27th, 2008 at 10:45 am
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“The robot will see you now. At least in the operating room, where more and more often robots stand between doctor and patients, the New York Times reports.
At many hospitals robots, under the control of doctors, are performing some of the precision work of prostate and gynecological surgery, for instance. In their favor, robots’ “hands” don’t shake, don’t tire and can make precise cuts in tiny places. Robots don’t care about X-ray exposure or need days off either.
But how well are medical robots complying with the Three Laws of Robotics as codified by the late sci-fi author and Health Blog hero Isaac Asimov? Let’s take a look at Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci surgical robot, featured prominently in the NYT’s piece.”
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Scott Hensley. WSJ Health Blog, 5 May 2008
Tagged: robot and surgery
; posted on Monday, May 5th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
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“What do you call a surgeon who operates without scalpels, stitching tools or a powerful headlamp to light the patient’s insides? A better doctor, according to a growing number of surgeons who prefer to hand over much of the blood-and-guts portion of their work to medical robots controlled from computer consoles.”
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Barnaby J. Feder, The New York Times, 4 May 2008
Tagged: robot and surgery
; posted on Monday, May 5th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
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“A computer simulation breakthrough could mean fewer medical complications and better surgical outcomes for patients undergoing hip, knee or spinal implant surgery. Each year surgeons across Europe perform a staggering 900,000 hip, knee and spinal implant operations. Implant surgery is one of the most remarkable advances in medical science. Such operations restore increased mobility and a vastly improved quality of life to millions of Europeans.”
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eHealthNews.eu, 30 April 2008
Tagged: simulation and surgery
; posted on Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 at 8:57 am
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