Surgery

IT & Surgery

IT can be used in two ways when it comes to surgery:


 * 1) The IT systems can be used in order to quickly recover patient information during the Surgery
 * 2) The IT systems can be used to perform the surgery

Patient Information Recovery
Very limited information concerning this.

An example is the Storz AIDA system. This system compiles all patient information from everywhere, so it can be at the doctor's disposal during surgery.

Surgery
The scientific name of this is computer assisted surgery (CAS). Computer assisted surgery can help make surgery less strenuous or evasive. CAS is image guided, and also provides a 3-D image, unlike 2-D images provided by normal endoscopic camera. Another similar, but quite close system is robotic surgery which uses robots. Read more on concerning CAS & robotic surgery: [|Brown BioMed]

An example is th Da Vinci system:

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