Sentences with phrase «perform more surgeries»

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There's still much more work to be done before robots can be routinely used in hospitals to help doctors perform surgery and other functions.

The company says that more than 4 million minimally invasive surgeries have been performed with da Vinci systems since 2000 — a new one begins every 42 seconds somewhere around the globe, Intuitive CEO Gary Guthart tells Fortune.

With more solid information showing that machines can perform surgeries just as well as human doctors, if not better, new competitors may finally be spurred into the market — a fact The Washington Post seems to have missed.

But robot - assisted surgery can take more of the surgeon's time than traditional procedures, reducing the number of operations doctors can perform.

• GENDER — ACL tears are more common in females than males, and make up approximately 75 percent of the ACL surgeries I perform.

The chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has performed more than 6,000 anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) operations since the early 1980s and is a world leader in anatomic reconstruction of the ACL.

Barrow Brainbook was created by neurologists at the Dignity Health Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, a renowned neurological establishment that performs more brain surgeries annually than anywhere in the United States.

This asks them to tell you the number of first cesareans, a more accurate picture of how often they perform this surgery, thus leaving out all of the repeat cesareans.

The device provides higher resolution neural readings than existing tools used in the clinic and could enable doctors to perform safer, more precise brain surgeries.

Now more than 70 percent of surgical procedures are performed in an outpatient setting, including more complex surgeries, such as hysterectomy, spine surgery and thyroid surgery.

Cosmetic injection of onabotulinum toxin A — best known by the brand name Botox — is by far the most common plastic surgery procedure, with more than 6.5 million procedures performed in 2015.

When faced with a challenging task, groups of people tend to get faster the more they do it — whether that task is building an airplane or performing multistep surgery.

Although more study is needed to evaluate the surgery's outcomes compared with more standard procedures, the benefits — such as less pain and a quicker recovery time — are often seen with minimally invasive procedures compared to more invasive surgeries, said Dr. Brandon Isaacson, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology — Head and Neck Surgery who performed the sursurgery's outcomes compared with more standard procedures, the benefits — such as less pain and a quicker recovery time — are often seen with minimally invasive procedures compared to more invasive surgeries, said Dr. Brandon Isaacson, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology — Head and Neck Surgery who performed the surSurgery who performed the surgeries.

But robot - assisted surgery can take more of the surgeon's time than traditional procedures, reducing the number of operations doctors can perform.

That ability to stay just at the edge of the envelope is what has made Black one of the world's most sought - after neurosurgeons, first at UCLA, where at 36 he became the youngest - ever full professor of neurosurgery, and now at Cedars - Sinai, where at 46 he has already performed more than 4,000 brain surgeries, the medical equivalent of closing in on baseball's all - time career hits record.

Within five years, one in three U.S. surgeries - more than double current levels - is expected to be performed with robotic systems, with surgeons sitting at computer consoles guiding mechanical arms.

The mastermind, India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) charged, was Amit Kumar — a man who performed the surgeries with no more formal training than a degree in ayurveda, the ancient Indian system of medicine.

Current treatment for an infection in a prosthetic knee involves removal of the biofilm - covered joint, placement of a temporary spacer, a six - week course of intravenous antibiotics, and then a second knee - replacement surgery that's more complex to perform than the original surgery.

«The results of surgery performed by members of the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSSANZ) in this trial were excellent but we need to wait longer and get further results to understand the best way to use laparoscopic procedures, and to determine whether this is something suitable for all patients or considered with more caution in patients who are difficult to operate on.»

For more than 50 years, Texas Children's Heart Center has cared for children with congenital heart defects, like HLHS, and treats more than 17,000 children and performs more than 800 surgeries annually.

With more than 1,000 KPro surgeries performed annually, and with new technologies being developed to increase the number of patients who may benefit, the KPro is a clear, plastic artificial cornea often used to replace diseased corneas in patients prone to rejecting biological tissues.

Doctors performed half a dozen surgeries on his legs, grafting muscles to give him more strength.

Expansion in the use of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)-- the minimally invasive surgery performed on heart patients instead of using drugs — is seeing more patients with acute coronary syndromes treated more quickly, according to the latest National Audit of PCI (covering 2012).

Hospitals more likely to perform minimally invasive surgery tended to be large urban teaching hospitals located in the Midwest, South or West.

Cardiac surgeons are successfully performing more extensive surgical repairs of type A aortic dissection — one of the highest risk operations in cardiothoracic surgery.

Luke had already undergone 15 operations in his life, but Dr. Tony wanted to perform one more surgery — an operation to solve Luke's problem.

Some procedures are more urgent or vital, and should be performed first and should not be combined for safety reasons, such as procedures with an increased infection risk, spinal fusion and heart surgeries, she said.

One of the first clues that swearing is more than mere language came from a 1965 brain surgery performed at the Omaha Veterans Administration Hospital in Nebraska.

Intuitive Surgical claims more than 1.5 million da Vinci surgeries have been performed in major clinical centers around the world.

It is one of the most common heart surgeries, with more than 500,000 performed in the U.S. each year.

Tommy John surgery, named after the former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher who underwent the pioneering surgery more than 40 years ago, has since been performed on legions of pitchers at the professional and collegiate levels.

There are no reliable statistics on the prevalence of this type of female genital surgery, since it is a doctor's - office procedure performed by physicians in a wide range of fields, but the American Society of Plastic Surgeons reports that more than 1,000 procedures for «vaginal rejuvenation» were performed?

Nguyen is developing ways to guide surgeons during tumor removal surgery by using fluorescent compounds to make tumor cells — and just tumor cells — glow during surgery, which helps surgeons perform successful operations and get more of the cancer out of the body.

These centers do not perform intracranial evaluations or other more complex epilepsy surgery.

A list of the more common procedures performed minimally invasively by our pediatric surgery team includes, but is not limited to:

A new technique of robotic partial nephrectomy has the potential for better preservation of kidney function and better cancer control during partial nephrectomy by allowing surgeons more time to perform the procedure compared with traditional open surgery, according to the results of a recently published case series.

5/20/2008 UC San Diego Medical Center Performs New Incision - free Procedure to Treat Weight Regain After Gastric Bypass Every year more than 100,000 U.S. patients undergo gastric bypass surgery for the treatment of obesity.

Today, surgeons at the 215 - bed hospital perform more than 29,000 surgical procedures each year, with more hip surgeries and knee replacements performed than any other hospital in the U.S. [READ Mmore than 29,000 surgical procedures each year, with more hip surgeries and knee replacements performed than any other hospital in the U.S. [READ Mmore hip surgeries and knee replacements performed than any other hospital in the U.S. [READ MOREMORE]

9/12/2007 UC San Diego Medical Center Performs Southwest's First «Natural Orifice» Surgery With Removal of Gallbladder through the Vagina Clinical Trial Compares Laparoscopic vs. Natural Orifice Techniques Surgeons at the University of California, San Diego Medical Center have performed the first clinical trial surgery in the Southwest to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of perfo... Surgery With Removal of Gallbladder through the Vagina Clinical Trial Compares Laparoscopic vs. Natural Orifice Techniques Surgeons at the University of California, San Diego Medical Center have performed the first clinical trial surgery in the Southwest to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of perfo... surgery in the Southwest to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of perfo... More...

In fact, our surgeons perform more laparoscopic colorectal surgeries than any other academic medical center in Illinois.

Doctors considered performing surgery to remove the fetus, but ultimately decided that operating on a 91 - year - old patient posed more risk than leaving it alone.

A second X-ray was done to confirm the findings before a team performed surgery, and that's when doctors realized the mass was actually a calcified fetus that had likely been in the woman's body for more than six decades.

In an article in The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Bruce Moseley, an orthopedic surgeon renowned for the knee surgeries he performed on people with debilitating knee pain, reported about a brilliant study he designed to prove that his signature knee surgery was more effective than others.

He then performed his fellowship for Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery with two more years of training at Wake Forest University, Bowman Gray School of Medicine.

The regulations like Texas» HB2 directly affect clinics, where abortions must be performed in ambulatory surgical centers, in cold rooms that appear more synonymous with open heart surgery.

Although some of those systems were never more than superfluous (especially the need to perform self - surgery after every minor combat injury), the others worked together in harmony.

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More pleasing still is how well the format adapts to the cramped confines of the locomotive — elegant tracking shots navigate the space smoothly, the discovery of the murder scene is shot from above à la Hitchcock or De Palma, and close - ups perform keyhole surgery through every pore to scrutinise souls.

For example, a family doctor makes a good income, but a neurosurgeon most certainly commands more money because he or she is a specialized doctor who has «mastered» the skill of performing complicated brain surgeries, amongst other things.

Hiring advisers low on the food chain to manage more than $ 25,000, is like hiring a rookie paramedic to perform complex open - heart surgery.