We've been invited to share the news about a live learning opportunity from our friends in London: This Thursday, October 24th, they will be streaming a program on organ transplantation, as part of the King's Health Partners Academic Surgical Grand Round monthly series....
Three Vattikuti Foundation alumni, Dr. Abhinav Deshpande, Dr. Elroy Saldanha, and Dr. Aditya Kulkarni, have been inducted as Fellows of the American College of Surgeons (FACS) during the Annual Congress of the American College of Surgeons in San Francisco. ...
New research in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) reports that there is virtually no difference in outcomes for patients with HIV who receive a kidney from an HIV-positive donor, as compared with a non-HIV donor. The study followed 198 patients from 2018...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted the Versius robotic surgery system its first approved use in the United States. This comes through a "limited marketing authorization through the FDA’s De Novo process which establishes initial indication for adults undergoing cholecystectomy," according to...
Longtime Vattikuti Foundation friend Dr. Parveen Bhatia, has a new video of his recent argument in favor of robotic hernia repair surgery over laparoscopic surgery. This was presented at ENDOSURG 2024 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi. ...
A largely Canadian study called ORATOR, has reported on the differences and similarities between two methods of treating Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma, using either Radiotherapy or Transoral Robotic Surgery (TORS). ...
Corewell Health, a relatively recent consolidation of Michigan hospitals, was trying to change the way incoming patient/provider communications were handled. Prior to COVID, as reported in Becker's Health IT, that 600,000 patient medical requests were handled annually....
For years, our friends at the ORSI Academy have been producing free, livestreamed surgery programs on their WRSE (World Robotic Surgery Event) platform. On October 15th, they are hosting a 12-hour event....
Five leading US tech firms- sometimes seen as competitors- are combining forces to help fight cancer: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Deloitte and Slalom will be supporting leading cancer institutions to the tune of $40-Million Dollars in funding and Artificial Intelligence technology. ...
University of Sydney researchers have studied 20-years' worth of health records from the U.K. Patients ranged from 40- to 69-years of age. They found that for elderly patients, brain function diminished slightly, depending on the number of surgical procedures an individual has had....
Open surgery for colorectal cancer has long been known to cause significantly more post-operative pain and a longer recovery period than minimally-invasive techniques. ...