Thoracic Surgery
Thoracic Surgery
Thoracic Surgery
Computer Vision Algorithm Studies Laparoscopic Procedures to Understand What's Going On
Laparoscopic surgeries are often automatically recorded from the point of view of the endoscope's lens. This is thanks to built-in recording equipment that accompanies many commercial endoscopic systems. What isn't easy is reviewing all those...
Thoracic Surgery
EasyOne Air Portable, Calibration-Free Spirometer from ndd Medical
ndd Medical Technologies, a company with offices in Andover, MA and Zurich, Switzerland, is releasing a new professional spirometer for primary care physicians. The EasyOne Air uses the company's TrueFlow ultrasound technology that does not...
Thoracic Surgery
Intuitive's New Budget Friendly da Vinci X Robotic Surgical System Cleared in U.S.
Intuitive Surgical is following up on the European clearance from a month ago for its da Vinci X robotic surgical system with a similar clearance from the FDA. The da Vinci X is a budget friendly cousin of existing offerings from Intuitive,...
Thoracic Surgery
PREVENA DUO Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Treats Two Incisions at Same Time
Acelity, based in San Antonio, Texas, is releasing the PREVENA DUO Incision Management System, a disposable negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) system that can be used to manage two surgical incisions at the same time. The company expects...
Thoracic Surgery
Body Vision Medical's LungVision System Merges Pre-Op CT with Intraoperative Imaging
Lung lesions these days are typically found and mapped via CT scans, that provide an imaging resolution sufficient to see them. During biopsies and surgeries, fluoroscopes are used, but their lower image quality makes it usually impossible to...
Thoracic Surgery
Intuitive Cleared in EU for Its New, More Budget Friendly da Vinci X Robotic Surgical System
Intuitive Surgical, makers of the famous da Vinci line of robotic-assisted surgical platforms, just announced receiving European regulatory approval to introduce its new da Vinci X surgical system. The system is designed for customers that can't...
Thoracic Surgery
Bovie Cleared in U.S. to Introduce Its Cool-Coag Multifunctional J-Plasma System
Bovie Medical recently received FDA clearance for its J-Plasma generator and handpiece featuring the company's "COOL-COAG" technology. Bovie has been famous for almost one hundred years for its electrosurgical tools that cut and coagulate tissues....
Thoracic Surgery
GoSpiro, an At-Home Wireless Spirometer Cleared by FDA
Monitored Therapeutics, a company based in Dublin, Ohio, has received from the FDA a marketing clearance for its GoSpiro Home Spirometer. The device is designed for patients to use on their own to measure various lung functions. It provides FVC...
Thoracic Surgery
GE Working on Automating 3D Printing of Organ Models
Engineers at GE Healthcare are working on easing the process of 3D printing model organs for doctors and patients to review before and after surgeries. These days it's a slow process hampered by the enormous amounts of data a CT scanner produces...
Thoracic Surgery
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