From the April 2013 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine



Moveable feats
Mobility and space are at a premium in hybrid rooms increasingly crowded with equipment. GE’s new Discovery IGS 730 angiography system is a direct answer to this problem. It eliminates the need for a ceiling- or floor-mounted gantry, instead using a wheeled base and a precision laser guidance system. The end result? It offers the same imaging and features of a fixed gantry system but has the mobility of a mobile C-arm.

“That’s why I really think vascular surgeons are very excited about this new concept—you still have the mobile application but you also have imaging applications that are not available in mobile C-arms,” says Dr. Stéphan Haulon, head of Vascular Surgery Department, University Hospital of Lille, France, who helped design the Discovery.
Other advanced tools may help free up surgeons’ mobility as well. “If we can combine advanced imaging systems with robots, then we would probably be able to be faster and more accurate and even less invasive,” says Haulon.

The Corindus CorPath 200 and the Hansen Magellan, robotic-assisted systems which doctors can manipulate with joysticks, take them out of the radiation field. This frees them from wearing cumbersome lead aprons and allows them to navigate arteries with more precision.

Georgetown University’s Weissman also thinks robot-assisted surgery ranks among the top device trends that will revolutionize the special procedure labs of the future. In fact, he predicts that one day robots will be able to perform surgical feats in the same way cars are now able to parallel park without a driver. “Using pattern recognition technology, the robots will automatically identify different anatomies of the body in relation to each other to help the surgeon operate,” he says.

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