The operating room of the future.
The operating room of the future will be designed to have peri-operative integration of all imaging capabilities. Pre-operative planning will become increasingly important, as will integrated intra-operative neuro-navigation. The operative work space will be redesigned to have robotic capabilities. Operating rooms will be isolated. Self-contained modular and robotic monitoring will become remote through improved sensors. The operating microscope will disappear. Light and magnification will be supplied by means other than optical microscopes.
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Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287-7709, USA.
D001698:Biomedical Engineering; D005544:Forecasting; D009873:Operating Rooms / Q000639:trends*