Latest AI and machine learning research in surgery for healthcare professionals.
BACKGROUND: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an effective surgical technique used to ameliorate the motor symptoms associated with Parkinson's disease. One of the key elements that determine successful patient outcomes is the accurate positioning of the DBS electrode during surgery.
Compounded medicinal products should be prepared using an appropriate quality-assurance system. Cleaning and disinfection, as part of this system, are important to avoid cross-contamination of the preparations, reduce the bioburden levels in products, and avoid hazardous drugs residues or toxic chemical exposure of the staff workers. However, manual cleaning is difficult to standardize. Automated ...
This is a response to the papers in the May/June issue of focused on robotic techniques in cardiac and thoracic surgery. Successful robotic surgery r...
PURPOSE: The current systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to compare Laparoscopic Distal Pancreatectomy (LPD) with Robotic Distal Pancreatectomy ...
Stroke is the second cause of mortality and the third cause of long-term disability worldwide. Deficits in upper limb (UL) capacity persist at 6 month...
A high percentage of post-stroke patients reports spasticity and no functional use of the upper limb. To adapt the therapy in the most patient-specifi...
The compounding of sterile medication admixtures is a labor-intensive process and subject to potential human error. The addition of robotic devices an...
Robotic surgery has been slow to be fully accepted in the world of pediatric urology largely because of its initial application directed towards adult...
OBJECTIVE: Minimally invasive techniques are used increasingly by virtue of advancements in technology. Surgery for prostate cancer, which has high mo...
Total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) is an effective treatment for glenohumeral (GH) osteoarthritis. However, it still suffers from a substantial rate of...
Robotic systems are used to support inpatients and healthcare professionals and to improve the efficiency and quality of nursing. There is a lack of s...
BACKGROUND: Male-to-female transgender patients desire to be identified, and treated, as female, in public and social settings. Facial feminization su...
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Despite increasing use of robotic surgery for radical prostatectomy, the benefit of robotic over open approach on different postope...
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This review aims to draw a road-map to the use of artificial intelligence in an era of robotic surgery and highlight the challenges...
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Nowadays, kidney cancer surgery has been focusing on a patient-tailored management, expanding the indication to nephron-sparing sur...
Mental health patients often undergo a variety of treatments before finding an effective one. Improved prediction of treatment response can shorten th...
Surgical pathology forms the cornerstone of modern oncological medicine, owing to the wealth of clinically relevant information that can be obtained f...
The skin is the largest organ of our body. Skin disease abnormalities which occur within the skin layers are difficult to examine visually and often r...