News tagged with operating room
Logitech pulls plug on Google TV set-top boxes
Logitech has pulled the plug on Google TV set-top boxes, saying consumers just aren't ready for the device which merges television and the Internet.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 11, 2011 |
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Speedy 3-D X-rays in the operating room
Having an operation always places strain on patients, and this is especially true of complicated operations. Surgeons use 3-D X-rays to check the results before the patient has left the operating room. This does help to avoid ...
Oct 27, 2011 |
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Rare hand transplant surgery successfully performed at Emory University Hospital
Transplant and reconstructive surgeons from Emory University Hospital announced today at a news conference that they have successfully performed a rare complete hand transplant on 21-year-old Linda Lu, a college ...
Mar 28, 2011 |
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Knee replacement surgeries take more time, are more costly in overweight individuals
Knee replacement surgery takes far more time to conduct in overweight and obese patients than in normal weight patients, according to recent research at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. The study will be presented ...
Feb 18, 2011 |
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Infiltrating cancer's recruitment center
The most common connective tissue cell in animals is the fibroblast, which plays an important role in healing wounds. But Dr. Neta Erez of Tel Aviv University's Sackler Faculty of Medicine has now demonstrated that fibroblasts ...
Jan 26, 2011 |
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Docs optimistic, but Giffords in for long recovery
(AP) -- Recovering from a gunshot wound to the head depends on the bullet's path, and while doctors are optimistic about Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' odds, it can take weeks to months to tell the damage.
Jan 10, 2011 |
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Surgical instruments left in children rarely fatal, but dangerous
Surgical items, such as sponges and small instruments, left in the bodies of children who undergo surgery are quite uncommon and rarely fatal but decidedly dangerous and expensive mistakes, according to a Johns Hopkins Children's ...
Nov 15, 2010 |
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Big VA study shows surgery checklist saves lives
(AP) -- Which hip is being repaired? Is this the right anesthesia? Do we have all the right surgery tools?
Oct 19, 2010 |
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Studies identify complications in women undergoing mastectomy and immediate breast reconstruction
About half of women who require radiation therapy after they have had a mastectomy and immediate breast reconstruction develop complications that necessitate a return to the operating room, but pre- or post-mastectomy chemotherapy ...
Sep 20, 2010 |
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Physicists set guidelines for qubit candidates
(PhysOrg.com) -- To build a quantum computer, it's essential to be able to quickly and efficiently manipulate the quantum states of qubits. The qubits, which are the basic unit of quantum information, can be composed of many ...
May 04, 2010 |
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Operating room radiography to transform surgery
In a move that could change the way many patients undergo surgery, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital has installed five state-of-the-art Siemens Artis zeego® medical imaging systems that provide faster, more accurate 3-D images ...
Apr 02, 2010 |
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Going green in the hospital
Wider adoption of the practice of recycling medical equipment — including laparoscopic ports and durable cutting tools typically tossed out after a single use — could save hospitals hundreds of millions of dollars annually ...
Feb 24, 2010 |
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More than 50 percent of injury-related deaths in rural Ontario occur before patients reach hospital
It's known that people who live or work in rural areas are more likely to suffer and die from serious injuries compared to those in more urban environments. But while time and distance play a role in these higher mortality ...
Jan 26, 2010 |
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Doctors' bedside skills trump medical technology
Sometimes, a simple bedside exam performed by a skilled physician is superior to a high-tech CT scan, a Loyola University Health System study has found.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 18, 2009 |
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Surgical errors remain a challenge in and out of the operating room
Despite a national focus on reducing surgical errors, surgery-related adverse events continue to occur both inside and outside the operating room, according to an analysis of events at Veterans Health Administration Medical ...
Nov 16, 2009 |
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