The history of cataract surgery over the past 40 years has seen a progression toward ever-smaller incisions. Now the profession seems poised for another step along that path, pushing the incision size ...

A maternal nag familiar to the ears of many young gamers usually follows the lines of “you’re wasting your life in front of a console.” Browbeaten controller wielders rejoice—a new study from the ...

FALL RIVER — If robotic-assisted surgery makes you think of characters from 1960s TV cartoons or science fiction movies, think again. At Saint Anne’s Hospital, robotic-assisted technologies have been ...

In a milestone that could pave the way for robotic surgery on humans, a robot successfully performed operations on four pigs. The findings are detailed in a study published Wednesday. This advance in ...

Surgical equipment encompasses devices and tools designed to perform specific actions or achieve desired effects during surgical procedures, including tissue modification, incision, suturing, and ...

Sometimes, it is brain surgery, and Jim Pearson is the first to admit it’s not easy to overhaul the way neurosurgeons do their extremely delicate job. For 15 years, Pearson has nudged, coaxed and ...

Carla Muss-Jacobs didn't give much thought to the tools her surgeon would use to replace her knee. Like most patients, she just wanted to feel better and trusted that any devices in the operating room ...

Microincision cataract surgery (MICS) is an approach to cataract surgery through incision less than 1.8 mm with the purpose of reducing surgical invasiveness, improving at the same time surgical ...

IOWA CITY — When she had an idea to create a tool to track equipment in hospital operating rooms, bariatric surgeon Maria Iliakova traded her surgery tools for pen and paper and signed up for the ...

Sandy Berreth, administrator of Brainerd Lakes Surgery Center, in Baxter, Minn., and an AAAHC surveyor, provided Becker’s Operating Room Clinical Quality & Infection Control with a collection of tools ...