In 2011, Shimane University Hospital, in Japan, deployed a high-frequency RFID solution to track surgical instruments used on patients through cleaning, sterilization and storage. The Rigshospitalet ...

SS Innovations has created five new 5 mm surgical robotics instruments for clinical use in pediatric, cardiac, and head and ...

CMR Surgical received the approval for abdominal surgery for its Versius platform in patients under age 18 in Europe, while ...

Clinicians used a new surgical technique to remove a separated endodontic instrument stuck about 2 mm below the tip of a patient's tooth root in a case published in the Journal of Endodontics. They ...

University of Washington surgeons have left five surgical instruments in patients during the past five years, including two13-inch-long retractors, the medical center said yesterday. The most recent ...

Having the right surgical tools on hand can mean the difference between a routine extraction and a complicated procedure. As a health care professional or decision-maker, knowing the top surgical ...

Robotics technology is quickly disrupting a variety of sectors, including the medical space, and surgical robot applications are a major component of the overall medical robots market. In fact, a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Lara Devgan, MD, MPH, FACS, discussed the issue of surgical instrument size for female surgeons. Most female ...

One of the most dangerous places to be in America is on an Operating Room table. The Leapfrog Group estimates that as many as 400,000 patients die every year due to preventable hospital errors. And if ...

It seemed simple enough at the time. In 2009, John Harrison, a 63–year-old oil industry sales manager in Mission, Texas, had surgery to repair the rotator cuff in his right shoulder, a routine ...