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UrduCardiovascular physicians with UC San Diego Health have joined an international clinical trial utilizing a new Extravascular Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (EV ICD) system to help treat sudden cardiac arrest.
Tag: Minimally Invasive Surgery
UC San Diego Health First in Nation to Implant New Device for Chronic Back Pain
Treatment provides non-opiate alternative that is minimally invasive with emphasis on functional restoration.
Neurosurgery team performs groundbreaking laser hemispherectomy on child with epilepsy
For only the second time in the world, doctors at the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital and the Department of Neurosurgery used a minimally invasive surgery to disconnect the right and left sides of the brain, stopping the seizures for a boy with epilepsy.
Henry Ford Health System is the First in Michigan to offer da Vinci Single Port Robotic Surgery System
Henry Ford Health System is the first in Michigan to offer the da Vinci SP® robotic surgery system, which requires only a single small incision for its surgical instruments and allows for greater control and access in narrow surgical spaces.
Gynecologic surgeon available to speak to media on precision robotic surgery
Dr. Dwight Im is one of 18 physicians from around the world recognized in minimally invasive surgical techniques to perform livestream surgeries as part of the annual AAGL (Elevating Gynecologic Surgery; originally founded as The American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists) Global…
Mission: Search and Destroy Prostate Cancer
Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health is using advanced imaging, genomics, personalized medicine and new therapies to treat patients like Brian McCloskey, who has stage IV prostate cancer.
New Surgical Tools with Smart Sensors Can Advance Cardiac Surgery and Therapy
Researchers developed a new class of medical instruments equipped with an advanced soft electronics system that could dramatically improve the diagnoses and treatments of a number of cardiac diseases and conditions.
Mini wiper blade enables clear view through minimally invasive surgical scope
A team at ClearCam, Inc., with funding from the NIBIB and ties to the University of Texas at Austin, designed a device for wiping a laparoscope lens clean, much the same way that a wiper blade clears a fogged up window.
Program reduces narcotic prescriptions after surgery with over-the-counter pain medicine
Surgeons at Houston Methodist Hospital are stemming the tide of addiction to prescription opioids by managing patients’ pain after surgery. By using long-acting local anesthetics at the site of surgery and scheduled non-narcotic pain medicine, they decreased opioid prescriptions from 87% to 10% after surgery.