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Category Archives: Surgery
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Showcasing A 50% Reduction in Critical Surgical Errors after PrecisionOS™ VR Training
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VANCOUVER, B.C. (September 9, 2020) – PrecisionOS, pioneers of the Surgical Mastery Platform™, announced today its plans to welcome a lineup of 12 panelists across the medical technology space, during its virtual event discussion, Educational Transformation of Surgical Training Using Virtual Reality.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, August [26], 2020 — PrecisionOS Technology, developers of the Surgical Mastery Platform™, announced today the details of a major breakthrough in basic and advanced fundamentals of arthroscopy training. The company has created the first-of-its-kind arthroscopy simulator available on a mobile, wireless device (Oculus Quest) which will also be used by CONMED International for surgeon educationm.
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Pugh, Professor of Surgery and Director of the Technology Enabled Clinical Improvement Centre at the Stanford University School of Medicine, joins the renowned PrecisionOS team to help refine training through their Simulation Virtual Reality Platform.
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Ongoing challenges posed by COVID-19 demonstrate the opportunity and need for hospitals and nurses to adopt procedural training through a virtual reality platform VANCOUVER B.C. (June 23, 2020) – PrecisionOS, developers of the proficiency-based medical-grade virtual reality™ learning platform for surgeons, announced today their expansion into orthopedic surgical nurse training. Following the increased demand for…
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For a glimpse into the world of surgical training over 100 years ago, one can look at The Agnew Clinic by Thomas Eakins and immediately observe the vast differences compared to today. Anatomist and surgeon David Hayes Agnew holds tools in his bare hands while his surgical team pins a patient down to a table and press…
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The Nuances of Numbers “Medicine’s distinction is that lives are lost in those slim margins” To appreciate the value of perfectionism in medicine, one only needs to consider the difference between 99% and 99.5% success rates. This marginal half-percent represents entire human lives. It means that for every 1000 individuals receiving treatment, five people won’t…
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What do the world’s elite athletes have in common with orthopedic surgeons? They’re both expected to perform at an expert level and they have both trained for years to hone their skills – but more importantly, they rely on a strong sense of confidence to perform at their optimal level. In the case of athletes,…
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Michael Porter thinks the healthcare system is transforming into a system based on value rather than services. At Clinical Congress 2018, he urged attendees to “be leaders in this transformation, rather than be dragged along.” He believes such a transformation is necessary because healthcare costs are unsustainable: they’re rising faster than GDP and income in most developed…