Insight & Experience
Efficient IT leads to efficient hospitals
AGFA
In March 2005, Agfa announced that it had chosen one platform as the foundation for all of its future software applications in healthcare. The platform will combine ORBIS™ and IMPAX™ and enable healthcare providers to improve clinical outcomes and patient care at lower cost.
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IT leads to more effective healthcare
AGFA
In the mid 1990s, when the Kliniken Ludwigsburg-Bietigheim hospital group began an exploration into how it could continue to meet the evolving challenges of Germany's healthcare system, the answer was clear: digital integration was the only way that the group's growing requirements could be met. From patients to hospital administrators, digitisation would deliver a host of benefits, from more informed, efficient care to increased cost-efficiencies and improved workflows, hospital-wide.
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Fighting spine disease
AOSpine Europe
Spine disease-related disorders and back pain cost the EU more than €100bn per year in healthcare services, social payments and lost business productivity. Chronic lower back pain has become one of the most common causes of disability in adults less than 45 years of age and is consequently one of the most common reasons for early retirement in industrialised societies. Increasing internet-driven patient demand has also contributed to the 77 per cent rise in surgical procedures over the last five years.
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| Surgical Equipment and Technology |
Towards the networked operating room
Sony
Digital imaging and communications networks can now deliver digitised video material wherever and whenever it is needed, improving the efficiency of operating rooms and hospitals, and providing a range of exciting teaching tools.
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Virtual reality-based clinical training
Simbionix
Simbionix’s state-of-the art technology for training in minimally invasive procedures provides an interactive platform for the practise of advanced procedures and the assessment of skills.
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Laser hits the spot
Fotona
High-performance lasers can provide a comprehensive, efficient and versatile solution to the needs of aesthetic laser practitioners.
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Diamond cosmetic scalpels
Element Six
A new range of diamond cosmetic scalpels manufactured by Element Six has been launched.
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Multipolar RFA of liver metastases
Olympus Europa
With in situ non-invasive ablation techniques growing in popularity, radiofrequency ablation risks collateral damage through use of monopolar currents, but bipolar and multipolar currents could produce extensive benefits.
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Integrated operating rooms
Richard Wolf GmbH
With the many complicated systems that make up an operating room, it can become a complex process to control them. The Wolf CORE system allows all the different devices to be controlled with one easy-to-use system.
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A natural feel for synthetics
Regent Medical Ltd
Synthetic polyisoprene has emerged from the standoff between the superior comforts and costs of NRL surgical gloves and the allergy-free synthetic gloves - potentially combining it all.
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A light like no other
Sciton
A broadband light nodule has been developed to treat a variety of skin conditions more efficiently and with greater control.
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Laser sheds light on AF treatment
MedicalCV Inc
The cause and treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF) is a developing area of study, but the only true cure remains the surgical Cox-MAZE procedure. More recently cardiac tissue ablation has become an accepted treatment for supraventricular arrhythmias and atrial fibrillation.
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Low-temperature solution for advanced sterilisation
Johnson & Johnson
The Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, USA was so impressed with the STERRAD hydrogen peroxide gas plasma technology during a recent trial that it has now switched all its orthopaedic battery sterilisation services over to this new system.
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UK company ready to clean up
Sterilox Technologies
A UK company operating in the field of disinfection and sterilisation has won a prestigious award for technology innovation leadership largely on the strength of the potential of its super-oxidised water product.
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Sources and prevention of surgical site infection
Medi-Flex Inc
Surgical site infections (SSI) are the third most frequently reported nosocomial infection accounting for 14 to 16 per cent of all hospital acquired infections. It has been estimated that clean surgery carries a 1 to 5 per cent risk of postoperative SSI and dirty procedures a 27 per cent risk due to a higher susceptibility to endogenous contamination.
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Neurogenic intermittent claudication treatment
SFMT Europe BV
Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is a condition involving narrowing of either the spinal canal or neural foramina. The most common symptom associated with LSS is neurogenic intermittent claudication (NIC). It is defined as pain or numbness in the buttocks, thighs and/or legs brought on by either prolonged standing or exercise in the erect posture.
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'Can arthroplasty treat painful DRUJ pain? by
Sanjay Desai, MD, West End Orthopaedic Clinic, Richmond, USA
It is estimated that in the USA there are more than 10,000 Kapandji pinning and Darrach procedures every year. Dr Sanjay Desai explains how use of an ulnar head implant may offer a painless solution to DRUJ repair that preserves the joint’s anatomy.
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Benefits of using PACS for orthopaedics
AGFA
Agfa’s IMPAX for orthopaedics provides increased access to images and flexibility in sharing information, simplifies office workflow, generates cost-savings and helps to improve the delivery of patient care.
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Solving big problems in small bones
Small Bone Innovations
In making products for the orthopaedic market, many development companies have focused on the large bone market. There is a growing need for small bone solutions, but the market is highly fragmented.
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Renal transplantation: the role of outcomes research
Novartis
Improved short-term survival in renal transplantation recipients has necessitated consideration of factors that influence patients’ long-term health-related quality of life (QoL). The incidence of side effects from immunosuppressive therapy is one such area.
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Fit for surgery with pre-op diet
Novartis
Pre-operative administration of an oral supplement containing immune-enhancing nutrients gives a boost to patients' immune systems. This helps to fight off post-operative infections, which results in patients spending less time in hospital.
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Computer aided surgical training
Simsurgery
It is a significant challenge ethically, financially and practically for surgeons to learn surgical skills without exposing patients to unacceptable risks. SimSurgery's vision is to increase clinical performance and reduce healthcare costs by offering solutions for better training.
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