TED Talk: Surgery’s past, present and robotic future
Catherine Mohr is quite an incredible women. She is both an engineer and a medical doctor. She combines these two fields with her great inventions which help advance surgery. Take a look at her TED Talk in which she presents the newest robotic tools for surgery, but also remembers the beginnings of this art/craft/science.
Save a person’s eyesight for only 30 dollars
OK, here is what you do. Watch the video below. Visit lomography.com/kikuyu and save a person’s eyesight for only 30 dollars.
Laser for stitching wounds
Professor Abraham Katzir and his colleagues from the Physics Department at the Tel Aviv University in Israel have developed a laser which could one day replace surgical stitches. The machine is still in its early stages of development, but looks quite promising. You will learn more by watching the video from Reuters below. The video […]
Dr. Awesome, Microsurgeon M.D.
This is a game for the iPhone for which I wanted to do a video review, but I see that others have already done it, so I will just embed their video. Here is a description of this game: Prepare to go micro! You are Dr. Awesome, the world’s most popular microsurgeon. A deadly strain […]
DIY navigation system for surgeons
Apple brings a story of professor Maki Sugimoto of Teikyo University Chiba Medical Center, a gastrointestinal surgeon, who wanted a better approach to navigation for planning and performing both aggressive and minimally invasive surgeries. He uses Apple computers with OsiriX imaging software to project 3D images onto a patient’s abdomen for both laparoscopic and midline […]
Zollinger’s Atlas of Surgical Operations on iPhone
Modality has just released their two new educational apps for the iPhone. They started with fantastic Netter’s anatomy flash cards and now they moved on to one of the most respected step-by-step guides to general surgery procedures, Zollinger’s Atlas of Surgical Operations. Zollinger’s Atlas of Surgical Operations consists of several parts devoted to gastrointestinal, miscellaneous […]
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