The Coming Future of Surgical Robotics: Interview with CEO of TransEnterix
TransEnterix is a late stage surgical robotics company founded in 2006. The company is dedicated to improving clinical outcomes through the use of robotics in surgery. TransEnterix acquired the surgical robotics division of SOFAR S.p.A in 2015 which included the TELELAP ALF-X advanced robotic system. TransEnterix is now focusing on commercialization of this platform as the Senhance robotic system. We had the opportunity to sit down with the CEO of TransEnterix, Todd Pope, to discuss the future of surgical robotics and positioning of the Senhance system in the market.
William Kethman, MD, Medgadget: Can you tell us about Tr...
Source: Medgadget - November 4, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: William Kethman Tags: Cardiac Surgery Exclusive Ob/Gyn Thoracic Surgery Urology Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
Google thinks I sell mobile homes. But I ’m a hernia surgeon.
Are you 100 percent sure your customers know where you are located? If you are like me, you think the answer is an obvious “yes.” But in reality, I did not have a clue because I wasn’t aware of local SEO.
SEO, traffic and ranking on the “first page of Google” are what marketing agencies stress to physicians, but I found out there is a side branch of SEO called local SEO.
So, I started asking questions like:
Why doesn’t my hernia practice ever show up in that map box on Google?
Why am I getting such a small amount of phone calls when I am the top website hit on Google?
The short answer:...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 10, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/jeff-eakin" rel="tag" > Jeff Eakin, MD < /a > Tags: Social media Surgery Source Type: blogs
Fortimedix Surgical ’s Laparoscopic FMX314 Introduces Two Instruments Via Single Trocar
Fortimedix Surgical, a company with offices in Nuth, The Netherlands and Rancho Santa Fe, California, won FDA clearance to bring to market its FMX314 laparoscopic surgical system. The device provides surgeons the opportunity to use two instruments at once via a single port in the abdomen.
The device is inserted via a standard 15 mm trocar, while controls outside the body closely mimic traditional laparoscopic equipment that make it seem like two different tools within their own trocars are being used. Since the port is a common size and doesn’t require a wider incision, patients will hopefully benefit from fewer com...
Source: Medgadget - August 29, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Ob/Gyn Surgery Urology Source Type: blogs
How Extracellular Matrix Scaffolds Influence Cell Behavior in Therapies
This study showed us that the matrix bound vesicles are clearly active, can influence cellular behavior and are possibly the primary mechanism by which bioscaffolds cause tissue regrowth in the body."
Link: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-07/uops-prs072816.php (Source: Fight Aging!)
Source: Fight Aging! - July 29, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Tips for patients to help ensure an accurate diagnosis
If you weren’t aware of the prevalence and severity of diagnostic errors, (misdiagnosis, missed diagnosis, delayed diagnosis) maybe you should be now.
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a new report called, Improving Diagnosis in Health Care. The report cited that most people will experience one or more diagnostic errors over their lifetimes. It also revealed that diagnostic errors contribute to 10 percent of patient deaths and account for up to 17 percent of hospital adverse events. In addition, diagnostic errors are the leading type of paid medical malpractice claims. Because of a scarcity of reporting and resea...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 14, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Martine Ehrenclou, MA Tags: Patient Hospital Malpractice Source Type: blogs
Start-up pitches high-tech glue for surgical leaks
TEL AVIV — An Israeli medical-device start-up is tackling one of the most dangerous occurrences in surgery — and it's doing it with glue.LifeSeal is a glue-like substance that augments and, in some surgeries like hernias, replaces the traditional and painful sealing procedures of staples, tacks and sutures.The privately-owned Israeli company behind the high-tech glue, LifeBond, says it should help in the treatment of post-operative leaks in closures of gastrointestinal and other surgical wounds. Patients get back up to speed more quickly and are more comfortable as they do.Orahn Preiss-Bloom, one of LifeBond's co-found...
Source: Medical Hemostat - November 16, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hemostatguy at gmail.com (hemostat guy) Source Type: blogs
The LITFL Review 128
The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle to find the most fantastic EM/CC FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation) around.
Welcome to the 128th edition, brought to you by:
Kane Guthrie [KG] from LITFL
Tessa Davis [TRD] from LITFL and Don’t Forget The Bubbles
Brent Thoma [BT] from BoringEM, and ALiEM
Chris Ni...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 4, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: eLearning Featured Intensive Care Pediatrics Toxicology #FOAMped #FOAMtox #meded FOAMcc FOAMed LITFL R/V LITFL review Source Type: blogs
Notes to myself – 2
Pentobarb coma – BIS should be 10-20 and SR (suppression ratio) should be 70-80
Consider lev albuterol
Should give vaccines after coiling of spleen or before if possible
No calcium channel blockers post MI definitely and post op in general
Toradol inhibits spine healing
Don’t do endoscopes with patients in supine position
don’t ambulate patients with known dvt’s. wait 2-3 days until clots get stuck.
dvt’s even with filter get heparin as much as possible for post phlebitic syndrome and to retard new clot formation
diffuse alveolar hemorrhage – secondary to chemo, goodpasture’s, wege...
Source: Inside Surgery - December 31, 2013 Category: Surgeons Authors: Editor Tags: General Source Type: blogs
Trick for Nearly Instant Flat Abs: Balloons?
Don't worry, that's not a "before" and "after" pic.image: wikipediaSo when I was online digging up various sorts of strangeness for the Weirdest Weight Loss post, I came across a "Daftest Diet" article from the Daily Mail. It included a tip from the book "Six Weeks to OMG: Get Skinnier than All Your Friends," which sounds, overall, highly annoying.But a tip it offered seemed intriguing: it's a simple way to engage and strengthen the transversus abdominis muscles.As you are probably aware, your transverse abs are the handy muscles deep inside that pull your belly in, and probably do other important things too but ...
Source: Cranky Fitness - December 23, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Crabby McSlacker Source Type: blogs
Where you stand depends on where you sit
I know from personal interactions that the CEO of Steward Health Care System has an excellent sense of humor. But he certainly cannot have meant to be funny when he appeared at the state health cost trends hearings hosted last week by the state Health Policy Commission and appealed to the state to enact more health cost containment legislation that would further limit prices for higher-cost doctors and hospitals. Julie Donnelly at the Boston Business Journal summarized:The demand for additional regulation is somewhat unusual given that de la Torre is the CEO of one of the few for-profit health systems in t...
Source: Running a hospital - October 6, 2013 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
Weighing the Benefits and Risks of Breast Reconstruction Surgery After Mastectomy
By Fonthip Maspithak
Breast cancer is no longer the death sentence it was decades ago. Improved medical interventions result in more survivors – even with the most aggressive forms of cancer. While women are concerned for their health, they may also be concerned about restoring the appearance of their breasts, leading them to consider breast reconstruction – a procedure performed after a mastectomy to restore the breast to its original size and shape. While it has risks, new methods provide women with greater and safer options to regain their previous shape.
Breast reconstruction is a major personal decision. ...
Source: Sciences Blog - June 19, 2013 Category: Science Authors: srinivas_s at omicsgroup.co.in (OMICS Publishing Group) Tags: General Source Type: blogs
FLASH CARD: Pulmonary Sequestration
Extralobar sequestrations have systemic arterial supply (usually from the aorta) as well as systemic drainage (usually into the IVC, azygous, hemiazygous, or the portal vein), thus creating a L to R shunt (functionally it is an AVF). 90% are related to the left hemidiaphragm. It possesses its own pleural investment and 30% are associated with diaphragmatic hernias. They may also communicate with the GI tract. They are congenital
Intralobar sequestrations occur most commonly in the lower lobes (usually the left) and are infrequently associated with other anomalies. Their arterial supply is via...
Source: Sumer's Radiology Site - June 11, 2013 Category: Radiologists Authors: Sumer Sethi Source Type: blogs
Chris Christie Lap Band Surgery
We are following with interest the news reports today of the Chris Christie lap band surgery. Although we are not participating in his care, some general information on what lap band or laparoscopic gastric banding and typical clinical issues to be considered is detailed below.
Lap band surgery is a commonly performed surgical operation done for the control of morbid obesity. It is best performed by experienced bariatric surgeons and is sometimes referred to as the “mini” weight loss surgery.
However, while the surgery is not as extensive as the roux-en-Y reconfiguring of the gi tract, it is a operation that i...
Source: Inside Surgery - May 7, 2013 Category: Surgeons Authors: Editor Tags: Medical News Wire Chris Christie gastric surgery lap band surgery weight loss surgery Source Type: blogs
Marfan’s Disease
Pathophysiology of Marfan’s disease
Marfan’s disease is
1) disease of connective tissue
2) marked by dilation of aorta and aortic dissection in a young person
Signs and Symptoms
1) tall stature with long lower torso
2) long limbs and digits
3) pectus carinatum (pigeon breast)
4) inguninal hernias
5) hypermobile joints
6) severe chest pain
7) lightheadedness
8) retinal detachment
9) myopia
10) bilateral subluxation of lines in outward and upward direction (ectopia lentis)
11) aortic regurgitation
12) mitral prolapse and “floppy” mitral valve
13) abnormal head (enlarged supraorbital ridges)
14) kypho...
Source: Inside Surgery - March 17, 2013 Category: Surgeons Authors: Editor Tags: Pediatrics Surgpedia ectopia lentis FBN1 lens subluxation rfibrillin 1 Source Type: blogs
