POSTS TAGGED AS minimally invasive surgery

Trans-Oral Robotic Surgery

TORS
The Da Vinci surgical robot is most often seen in prostate cancer operations, but in this piece a Head & [MORE]

Tiny Video Camera for Endoscopy

Medigus Micro Scout Camera
Minimally invasive surgery offers potentially good news for patients and troubling news for conventional hospitals, leading to [MORE]

World’s Smallest Pacemaker

Micra Transcatheter Pacing System
Cardiac surgeons at Southampton General Hospital (UK) used a catheter to thread a pill-sized pacemaker through the [MORE]

The Outpatient Hospital of the Future

Inpatient Care
Hospitals make money by admitting patients, performing surgical and surgery-related services, and discharging the person as quickly as possible. [MORE]

AngioVac Removes 2’ Blood Clot

AngioVac
A 62 year old man at the UCLA Medical Center presented a blood clot that stretched 24 inches [MORE]

“Painting,” Seeing and Excising Glioblastomas

Intracranial robot prototype
There are three stories here about new neurosurgical techniques aimed at treating one of the deadliest cancers, [MORE]

HD/3D Endoscope

Sony Surgical Headset
What Sony learned about 3-D television in home theaters now has a medical version—a head mounted image processing [MORE]

Micro-Endoscopy

Normal human vision can see things as small as 125 microns (i.e. 125 thousands of a millimeter); today’s best [MORE]

“Non-Invasive” Surgery

Using an optoacoustic lens that converts laser light to high-amplitude sound waves, engineers at the University of Michigan have pioneered [MORE]

Lighting up Kidney Tumors

A combination of the daVinci surgical robot and an indocyanine green dye injected tracer allows kidney surgeons at Georgetown [MORE]

Micro-robotic Surgery

Sprint Micro Robot
Minimally-invasive surgery is becoming more minimal, with micro-robotic tools that give the maneuverability of a daVinci machine [MORE]

Minimally Invasive, Sutureless Aortic Valve Replacement

Using a replacement aortic valve that opens like an umbrella and anchors itself to the vessel’s walls, surgeons at [MORE]

Guidewire Development for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Neometrics Guidewires
One familiar assumption about the future of medicine is that any procedure which can be done on an [MORE]

Robotic Neurosurgery

Robocast
EU-funded research has created a highly advanced robot for neurosurgery.  Among other features, this robot has thirteen degrees of [MORE]