March 28th, 2011 by Medgadget in News
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Engineers at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital have been trialing a new system that uses Microsoft’s Kinect to allow surgeons to browse through diagnostic images without having to physically touch any controls. Using the system surgeons can manipulate images without losing sterility, without any assistance from a nurse or other person in the OR, all while not having to move away from the patient.
Here’s a report from The Globe and Mail:
More from The Globe and Mail: Toronto doctors try Microsoft’s Kinect in OR
Flashbacks: Microsoft Kinect 3D Camera for Hands-Free Radiologic Image Browsing;
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October 27th, 2010 by RamonaBatesMD in Better Health Network, Opinion, Research
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There’s an article in the Oct 20, 2010 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) which discusses surgical team training and teamwork in the operating room.
Most surgeons have crews or individuals in the operating rooms they prefer to work along side. Things just go smoother. We work more as a team, more as one.
Why? Personalities. Communication styles that work well together. Skills that compliment. Each person knows and does their job, not trying to do someone else’s. Each knowing that even the smallest task is important to the whole.
Ideally, we could create teams like this at all times in the operating room. In reality, its not so easy. Change in personnel happens. Team members get sick, so there is great need for crosstraining and flexibility. Personnel (including surgeons) need to be able to work with these changes.
I know currently the comparison is to racecar teams that change the tires, etc. with great efficiency or the aviation industry with their checklists. While we should learn from these industries, we must not forget that medicine is far more diverse. Surgeries are not all the same. The cars are. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Suture for a Living*
June 17th, 2010 by Medgadget in Better Health Network, News, Research
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Felasfa Wodajo, an orthopedic oncologist in Virginia, recently took his iPad into the operating theater to see how it performs in such an environment.
Being one of the editors at iMedicalApps, Dr. Wodajo just published his initial findings and they bode a rather bright clincial future for the iPad, and tablets in general.
SOURCE: iMedicalApps: Test driving the iPad in the hospital Operating Room…
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January 30th, 2009 by Dr. Val Jones in Friday Funny
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Don’t tell me you can’t relate, ladies…
And thanks to Kerri Morrone Sparling from Six Until Me for modeling her Better Health t-shirt. She was the winner of our recent caption contest!
