Going under the knife with technology.
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In the OR last week, looking at the da Vanci Surgical System sitting in the corner …
Wait, what’s that at the base of the device?
Could it be?
An easy button!?!?!
There is even a youtube video explaining how to hack the easy button so that it says what you want. They could make for an interesting moment in the hospital.
Posted in Clinical.
– January 25, 2012
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I did an interview recently with Niall Boyce for The Lancet’s technology section. Full text of the article is now available.
In the picture featured in the piece (and reproduced here), I’m digitizing the surface of the brain with a conoscopic holography sensor. The sensor is optically tracked with a Northern Digital Polaris Spectra so that we can reconstruct the 3D surface of the patient’s brain. The patient is undergoing tumor resection at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
– October 17, 2011
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I’ve finally updated my list of impact factors from 2008 with newer scores. Below, I indicate the 2008 score with a strikethrough followed by the 2010 score. Remember that ISI lists the scores for the previous year so these are the most up-to-date scores.
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 1.960 1.568
Biomedical Engineering Online 1.119
Computer Aided Surgery Not Listed 1.490
Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering 1.268 1.573
Computer Vision and Image Understanding 2.220 2.534
Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics 1.166
IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics 2.577
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 2.496 1.790
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 3.315 2.918
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 4.004 3.639
IEEE Transactions on Robotics 3.063
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Vision 5.960 5.308
IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics 2.445 1.922
Image and Vision Computing 1.496 1.578
International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery Not Listed
International Journal of Computer Vision 5.358 5.151
International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery 1.043 1.257
International Journal of Robotics Research 2.882 4.095
Journal of Biomechanics 2.784 2.463
Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography 1.358
Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology 0.947
The Lancet 33.633
Medical Image Analysis 3.602 4.364
Medical Physics 3.871 3.075
Nature 31.434 36.104
Neuroimage 5.694 5.937
Science 28.103 31.377
Surgical Endoscopy 3.436
Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology 2.395 2.493
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research 1.893 2.116
Journal of Arthroplasty 1.556 2.207
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American Volume) 3.313 2.967
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (British Volume) 2.196 2.351
Journal of Neurosurgery 2.124 2.739
Magnetic Resonance Imaging 1.871 2.042
Neurosurgery 3.398 3.298
Orthopedics 0.588 1.098
Radiology 5.996 6.069
The Journal of Hand Surgery (American Volume) 1.447 1.439
Source:
Journal Citation Reports [ISI Web of Knowledge, by subscription]
Posted in Research.
– October 7, 2011
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Dr. McGirt's Cervical Spine Reconstruction on Model
An upcoming episode of Grey’s Anatomy will feature a depiction of a real-life case of internal decapitation from Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The chin of Judy Kerns was eroding into her clavicle. In simpler terms, Kerns’ head was falling off. According to the Vanderbilt news report, she had some degeneration of bone density and was in involved in a car accident which accelerated her deleterious condition. Eventually, her jaw started rubbing on the clavicle and an open sore developed that wore down to the bone.
Vanderbilt Neurosurgeon Matthew McGirt performed a vertebrectomy and reconstructed the entire cervical spine with titanium implants. The only anatomy left intact were the arteries and nerves in her spinal cord. The joints were fused in the procedure so she is unable to rotate or nod her head.
From Nashville’s Channel 2:
The Grey’s Anatomy episode will air on October 20, 2011 on ABC.
Source:
‘Grey’s’ episode to feature breakthrough Vanderbilt surgery [ABC News]
Unique three-stage spine surgery saves woman’s life [House Organ]
Internal Decapitation [Ivanhoe]
– October 6, 2011
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Recently, Dr. Reid Thompson, one of my collaborators, gave a TED talk on the sense of wonder he feels in his neurosurgical practice at Vanderbilt. He also describes how he sees the future of robotic and image-guided neurosurgery (around 10:20). Laser-range scan data from my lab is also shown (around 11:00).
Posted in News.
– June 18, 2011
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Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery (CAOS) is in London, June 15-18, 2011. CAOS is a great conference for researchers that would like to establish connections with orthopaedic surgeons and equipment manufacturers. If you’re a surgeon looking to break into the field, this conference is a good starting point. The audience at the conference seems to strike a good balance between the newbies and the veterans in the field.
Posted in Conferences, News.
– April 24, 2011
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Middle Tennessee Medical Center will tweet live updates on Thursday of a hysterectomy using the daVinci Robotic Surgical System.
Source:
Hospital To Tweet During Hysterectomy [WSMV]
Posted in News.
– November 10, 2010
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Surgeons at Washington University have a new tool, the Monteris AutoLITT. From the press release:
“This tool gives us a treatment for patients with tumors that were previously deemed inoperable,” said Dr. Leuthardt, MD. “It offers hope to certain patients who had few or no options before.”
In Wednesday’s procedure, the surgeons drilled a small burr hole about the diameter of a pencil through the patient’s skull, and then used MRI scans to guide the thin laser probe through the brain into the tumor.
An animation from the manufacturer:
Sources:
New tool ‘cooks’ cancer cells in inoperable brain tumors [Physorg]
Monteris AutoLITT [Monteris Medical]
Surgeons Use New Tools to Treat Inoperable Brain Tumors [Barnes Jewish Hospital]
Posted in News.
– October 3, 2010
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CASblog is one year old! Can you believe that I’ve had over 60 posts? Let’s celebrate with a juicy slice of brain cake from The Old Voodoo Kitchen:
A shout out to T over at SurgRob for doing a little something on CASblog. Check out the discussion on compensating for patient motion and da Vinci usage numbers: success and failure. Thanks for the introduction!
Let’s talk news:
Posted in Clinical, News, Research.
– September 26, 2010
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The Food Network series ‘Ace of Cakes’ featured a cake commissioned by a bride as a wedding surprise for her urologist groom.
I’d eat that.
Posted in News.
– September 2, 2010
