[Technology integration and process management. Concept and implementation of a new platform for simultaneous diagnosis and therapy of acutely ill and injured patients and for elective computer assisted surgery (CAS)].
Modern imaging and computer technology gain more and more importance in surgery. This is true for elective and emergency diagnosis and treatment. However integration of technology and optimization of process management is severely behind. A new diagnostic-therapeutic platform should balance this deficit. The platform is composed of a fully equipped operation room environment with integrated high end computer-tomography with navigation, a digital subtraction angiography and an OR- and imaging-table particularly developed for this set-up. The platform may be used for elective diagnosis, for diagnosis and therapy in polytraumatized patients in one and the same location (one stop shop) and for computer assisted surgery (CAS). Bringing the technology to the patient and not the patient to the technology can save time consuming and potentially dangerous transports and expensive personnel can be reduced. Navigation-technology and high quality intra-operative imaging expand the spectrum of minimally invasive surgery.
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Departement Chirurgie, Allgemeinchirurgische Klinik, Abteilung Traumatologie, Kantonsspital, Universitätskliniken, Spitalstrasse 21, 4031 Basel, Schweiz. Peter.Messmer@unibas.ch
Jacob
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Fries
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Gross
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Suhm
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Steinbrich
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Frede
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Schneider
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Regazzoni
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D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D009104:Multiple Trauma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D009873:Operating Rooms; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013523:Surgical Equipment; D013557:Switzerland; D013996:Time and Motion Studies