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How Safe Are Your Patients? - June 2016 - Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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assess tissue perfusion for colon resections, avoid nicking the com- mon bile duct during lap choles, and other out- come improvement and patient safety purposes in minimally invasive sur- geries. It does this simultane- ously with its HD white- light imaging, so you never have to switch between settings or otherwise alter your technique or operating plans. You likely won't need these visualization options for every case — as experi- enced surgeons will tell you, standard moves have served us well long before image enhancement technologies were developed — but sometimes they're very valuable. As with Stryker's 1588 AIM platform, adopting Pinpoint requires you to invest in a new tower and scope system. Novadaq's image enhancement has been integrated into da Vinci robots, and it's really useful there. I'd be eager to see them license the technology into other companies' products as well. OSM J U N E 2 0 1 6 • O U T PA T I E N T S U R G E R Y. N E T • 6 5 Dr. Ross (mysharonaross@gmail.com) is the director of minimally invasive surgery and surgical endoscopy at the Southeastern Center for Digestive Disorders at Florida Hospital Tampa.

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