All the stories tagged with: surgery
Artificial lungs can replace our regular lungs in the future
07/26/2011, It’s amazing how far technology has come, back in the day who would’ve thought that we’d be able to replace our malfunctioning lungs with an artificial lung? Some researchers at the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) have come up with [...]
World’s first double leg transplant carried out in Spain
07/11/2011, Some surgeons in Spain announced that they’ve completed the world’s first double-leg transplant earlier today. While the results of the operation aren’t conclusive yet, it is a noteworthy achievement for Pedro Cavadas who has performed similar breakthrough operations in the [...]
Blinky the Surgeonator robot turns 5
06/09/2011, Everybody deserves a birthday party – even if you weren’t “born” but created instead. Which is the case with Blinky the Surgeonator. This highly advanced robot that has been responsible for performing over 400 pediatric robot assisted surgeries since its [...]
iPod Touch used to aid joint replacement surgeries
04/20/2011, In the ever expanding field of technology being used in medicine, we know that the iPad has been pretty much a staple of every doctor today. But what about its smaller and less talked about brethren, the iPod Touch? Well [...]
Bored surgeon makes paper plane the size of a penny
04/01/2011, When you’re a surgeon working in a hospital, and there’s a downtime where you have no patients to operate on, what do you do? You hone your surgery skills by practicing with surgical robotic hands of course. And that’s just [...]
SimQuest to release open-incision surgical simulator
03/29/2011, While they say practice makes perfect but in the realm of surgery, you don’t really have a lot to practice with. What surgeons in training have to practice on right now are live patients or animals, and usually living things [...]
Kinect used to perform surgery
01/19/2011, It’s time to add one more item to the ever growing list of things you can do with a Kinect. Previously all we had were fun hacks to play games differently. Now, a group of students from the University of [...]
Nvidia showcases robotic cardiac surgery
10/20/2010, Nvidia might soon have a major presence in operating theaters, recently showcasing their “beating heart surgery” procedure that is GPU-enabled. This will assist cardiac doctors to perform the heart surgery in a safer manner, helping reduce the cost of surgery [...]
Haptic Feedback Tools To Help With Laparoscopic Surgery Training
07/27/2010, Laparoscopic gastric banding is a surgical treatment for morbid obesity, and apparently the most important factor in the success of this operation is the hands of the surgeon. He’ll need plenty of proficiency and skill to do the necessary inside [...]
