Five years ago, surgeons at the Lukas Hospital in Neuss, Germany, used water jet dissection for visceral surgery for the first time. Dr Bernhard Lammers, head of the hospital's General and Visceral Surgery Department, describes subsequent experiences with this procedure and possible future developments
There is a need for a national institue to co-ordinate education and certification in minimally surgery.
'Alles im Fluss' is the slogan of the 22nd Annual Congress of the German Society for Endovascular & Vascular Surgery, to be held from 6-9 September, in Muelheim an der Ruhr.
Core - the integrated operating theatre concept created by Richard Wolf GmbH, has a modular, networked structure to link various devices in the operating theatre.
'Positive action is needed to more and more raise awareness of gender differences and cardiac disease - even among cardiologists.'
New initiative aims at clarification and education.
Nurse-surgeon training in the UK is lively discussed for other European countries doing the same to address their lack of qualified surgeons.
The operating `theatre´ exists no longer - at least in St Olavs Hospital (Trondheim University Hospital, Norway) where Europe's first operating studio officially opened this May. Now medical students no longer crane their necks to study surgical procedures. Thanks to this exciting new audio-visual concept they can see more, hear more and learn more.
As the German Society of Neuroradiology 40th annual meeting approached (Venue: Dresden. 31 August - 3 September), Professors Martin Schumacher (Freiburg), President of the German Society of Neuroradiology (GSN) and Rüdiger von Kummer (Dresden), the meeting's President, examine the history and potential in this medical field
We asked Professor Badiale about progress in the understanding of women and heart disease.
Professor Paul Pepe and Dr Jane Wigginton discuss current research and concepts that will affect the future of basic CPR.
In our last issue we featured the Future Operating Room Project developed at St Olavs Hospital, University Hospital of Trondheim, Norway, a collaboration between the hospital and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. There, highly promising research on navigation is being carried out in co-peration with the research foundation Sintef Health Research. Professor of Surgery Hans O…
Experts call for screening of surgical and medical patients, and thromboprophylaxis for those at risk.
General information concerning the country's healthcare is held at the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE).
´CT has been revolutionizing the understanding and treatment of stroke´ - that is the summary of Dr. Dzialowski.
Interview with Prof. Klaus Vetter MD, director of the Obestetrics Clinic at the Perinatal Centre, Vivantes Hospital Neukölln, Berlin, Germany.
Healthcare authorities have advised university hospitals to slowdown surgical training, because, after years of study, qualified Dutch surgeons can find no employment.
Is a sharp weapon being blunted? Article by Heidi Heinhold.
The use of unlicensed and off-label medicines for children is widespread, yet over 50% of all pharmaceutical products have no scientific data for young people. With its Regulation on Medicinal Products for Paediatric Use the EU aims to promote the development of more medicines specifically for children.
The recent 26th International Symposium of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine - the largest annual meeting of its kind - attracted around 5,000 participants, who travelled to Brussels from over 80 countries.
USA - The 898-bed Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston - Harvard Medical School's biggest teaching hospital - has awarded a $3.4 million contract for 1,365 syringe pumps to Smiths Medical
An application report by assistant plastic surgeon Thomas Aigner, and F Weyer, of the Department of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, at St. Polten Hospital, Austria
Wound Infection Institute is dedicated to improving infection control.
“The certification offered by the academy and the Healthcare Academy of Styria/Academy of the Austrian Care Association” is based on paragraphs 63 and 64 of the Austrian Healthcare Act, under which healthcare professionals are required to expand the knowledge they acquired during training at least every five years, through seminars that cover a minimum of 40 hours (para. 63 Abs. (1) S. 2.…