High definition laparoscopes offer phenomenal images, but as recently as this week we bemoaned the lack of user-friendly high definition recording platforms in the operating room. Sony’s new ImageCore HD, being shown this weekend in the SAGES exhibit hall, changes everything. This thing is so user-friendly and feature-loaded that, frankly, we can’t believe we’ve lived so long […]

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In what will come as news to almost no one, researchers have found that “after hours” procedures, defined as those beginning after 4PM, are associated with higher rates of complications than procedures starting between 7AM-4PM, even after excluding emergency cases and controlling for patient and procedure conditions.

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There is an amazing amount of hype and bad data surrounding the use of hemostatic and sealing agents. Despite thousands of manuscripts published on the various glues, pastes and potions currently being hawked, there is a major dearth of solid information.

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Two new studies take a cold, hard look at some of the hidden factors influencing surgeons when they determine both the need for surgery and the best procedure for a given condition. Believe us when we say it isn’t pretty.

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We’re getting just a little closer to hassle-free 3D images in the operating room. Last week Samsung announced that their line-up of 3D-ready televisions would finally debut in South Korea, and should be arriving in the United States in the next month or so.

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One of the main problems with laparoscopic surgery is that the images offer no sense of depth, which can confuse novice surgeons and makes instrument placement more difficult. With 3D imaging, however, it is possible to overcome this problem. Modifications of old technologies, as well as the recent development of some new ones, have made […]

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