POSTS TAGGED AS surgery

An Internal Bleeding Detector

Saranas earlybird bleeding detector
During a surgery or transcatheter procedure, a blood vessel might be accidentally nicked, resulting in bleeding that [MORE]

The “MasSpec Pen”

Mass spec pen detects cancer
This isn’t what first comes to mind—a mass spectrometer reduced to the size of a pen.  [MORE]

Transforming Operating Rooms

OR of the future
Operating rooms are the heart of any hospital.  Johns Hopkins Hospital has 33 ORs; Mayo Clinic, 87 [MORE]

Improving O.R. Efficiency

Operating room
Hospitals, particularly those in multiple hospital systems, have tremendous incentive to move surgeries through operating rooms as quickly as [MORE]

Robotic Catheter in the Heart

Robotic catheter
Robotic catheters have been in use for some time, but this piece describes one, developed at Harvard Medical School, [MORE]

Precision Prosthetics from 3D Printing

Creating anatomic models
3D scanning and 3D printing are waiting for one more development before moving into clinical grade custom implants [MORE]

3D Printed Sugar-Based Stent

Disovable stent to aid cardiovascular surgery
With an extruded sucrose material, engineers at the University of Nebraska have created a resorbable [MORE]

Looking Ahead at Surgical Robots

2 LB robot operates outside the body
What’s on the horizon for surgical robots? How about these things: more sensitive force [MORE]

AI for Measuring Blood Loss

Guass uses AI to estimate blood loss
Unless you’re interested in the business side of surgical suppliers, you can skip the [MORE]

Precise Needle Navigation

XACT Robotics needle steering and insertion system
Invasive surgery depends on steady hands, but even the steadiest might have trouble compensating [MORE]

A Portable OR

MIT Sally Miller SurgiBox
MIT graduate student Sally Miller took a 43 year old idea and reinvented it. The idea was [MORE]

Camera that Sees through the Body

Human Body Illuminated
“Experts have integrated thousands of single photon detectors onto a silicon chip, similar to that found in a [MORE]

3-D Medical Imaging

EchoPixel True3D
“EchoPixel, a company in Mountain View, California, hopes to bridge the gap [between what a surgeon sees on a [MORE]

Robotic Microsuturing

Microsure Robot
Swelling is a dangerous complication of breast cancer and reconstruction surgery. This can be ameliorated by reconnecting lymph and [MORE]