Surgery and Surgical Robotics
Virtual Reality Surgical System Coming to Rush University
The days of operating on female pigs are over for obstetrics and gynecology residents at Rush University Medical Center. The 24 doctors in the four-year program will practice surgeries on a virtual reality system beginning later this summer. Rush and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are splitting the $12,000 cost of the training…
Read MoreMazor Robotics Set to Receive $20M Investment from Medtronic
Medtronic PLC is preparing to invest another $20 million in Israeli med-tech company Mazor Robotics, which is expected on Tuesday to announce a new robotically assisted spine-surgery system called Mazor X. Analysts say physician interest in robotically assisted surgical tools is steadily growing, and Medtronic seems to be positioning itself to capitalize on the trend…
Read MoreIs Your Doctor’s Advice Objective on Receiving Robotic Surgery?
Patients often rely on physicians for information about their treatment alternatives. Unfortunately, that information is not always objective. Consider a man with early-stage prostate cancer interested in surgical removal of his tumor, but uncertain whether it is better for the surgery to be performed with the help of robotic technology. He asks his surgeon for…
Read MoreFlexible Robotic System, Developed in Pittsburgh is Centerpiece of Medrobotics
James Jordan half-jokingly said he thought he “might be investing in a sock puppet.” The year was 2005. Mr. Jordan, one of four executives-in-residence at the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse on the South Side at the time, had just volunteered to help Howie Choset, a Carnegie Mellon University robotics professor, and Marco Zenati, then a…
Read MoreTrauma Surgeons Superhuman Efforts at Orlando Health
A 6-year-old boy with abnormal pupils and gasping for breath. A 26-year-old pregnant woman with a gunshot wound to her abdomen. A 54-year-old male with blood pouring from a wound in his thigh. Now add 43 more patients. Imagine you are the paramedic at this scene. Who do you take to the hospital first? Who do you…
Read MoreBaby Bentley Born with Brain Formed Outside of Skull
When Sierra Yoder went with her husband Dustin to get her 22-week ultrasound and find out the sex of their baby, she was shocked when the concerned doctor sent her to a neurosurgeon. Soon after, the baby was diagnosed with encephalocele, a condition affecting 1 out of every 10,000 babies, causing part or all of the brain…
Read MoreSophisticated Robotic Hand Learns it’s Experiences
Get a grip! Not so easy if you are working with a robotic hand. Researchers from the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle are tackling the problem with the development of a sophisticated five-fingered robotic hand…one that can learn from its own experience without needing humans to tell it what to do. Vikash Kumar, a…
Read MoreWhy Jobs in Surgical Robotics and VR are at fever pitch – Plus a great video from #IEEE featuring a few of our client companies!
If you ever wanted to work in the field of Surgical Robotics, now may be the time to connect with Legacy MedSearch, one of the leading retained medtech recruitment companies in the North America. Even with my intense focus on surgical robotics over the last dozen years, I have not seen such a quick uptick…
Read MoreNew Imaging Method Captures a Detailed Snapshot of Brain
When it comes to measuring brain activity, scientists have tools that can take a precise look at a small slice of the brain (less than one cubic millimeter), or a blurred look at a larger area. Now, researchers at Rockefeller University have described a new technique that combines the best of both worlds–it captures a…
Read MoreStentrode Brain Implant Helps People with Disorders and Disabilities Move
What do you get when you cross a stent with a bunch of electrodes? It is a “stentrode,” a minimally invasive brain implant made from off-the-shelf components to help patients with physical disabilities and neurological disorders to move their limbs. The size of a paper clip, the stentrode is the latest installment in DARPA-funded efforts…
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