Each year, more applications for robots are launched: visceral surgery becomes less invasive and more precise and even demanding angioplasty procedures yield better outcomes when a robot is involved. However, this also gives rise to new challenges such as keeping the robots clean. Keep reading to find out more.
 |
Sponsored • Reference center reportsA new era in minimally invasive robotic surgeryThe Protestant Hospital Wesel (EVK Wesel) is one of two reference centres in Germany and one of 25 worldwide for the Senhance Surgical Robotic System from Transenterix. ‘We wanted to be the first in the Lower Rhine region to go to market with a ... |
Advertisement |
 |
Article • Significant improvement in cleaning, disinfection and sterilisationSurgical robots must also be hygienicModern healthcare without hand hygiene? Inconceivable – particularly in the operating room (OR). But what happens when it is not the surgeon who handles the scalpel, but a robot? Robotic surgery, just like surgery performed by humans, always ... |
 |
Sponsored • Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)Robotic angioplasty: The future of endovascular interventionsAn exciting development from an innovative French company is poised for a major breakthrough in European markets. As is now well-known, coronary angioplasty is a procedure that widens and/or unblocks the arteries to the heart by the insertion and ... |
 |
Sponsored • Workflow automationLoop-X: Imaging robot for spinal surgeryBrainlab recently unveiled its flagship Loop-X mobile intraoperative imaging robot that is specifically designed for spinal surgical procedures. Developed by medPhoton, an Austrian company, the device is now the core of Brainlab’s imaging ... |
 |
Sponsored • The Heraeus Symposium at DKOUChallenges of periprosthetic infectionPeriprosthetic joint infection (PJI) is on the increase internationally. In Germany, for example, around 14,500 cases of PJI in hip and knee replacements occur annually. 5,100 of those are caused by multidrug resistant pathogens. ‘Eighty-seven ... |
 |
News • Endoprothesis treatment"Smart" implant coatings to nip infections in the budA material that is particularly toxic when bacteria are present in its environment? Physicists from the University of Augsburg, together with colleagues from Hamburg and Munich, have developed just such an "smart" coating. In the future, ... |
You are receiving this email because you subscribed to our newsletter on healthcare-in-europe If you don’t want to receive this newsletter anymore, click here to unsubscribe. Keep up-to-date on the latest news from all hospital-related fields! Copyright © 2024 mgo fachverlage GmbH & Co. KG. E.-C.-Baumann-Straße 5, 95326 Kulmbach, Germany |
   |