Technology: System Integration
 Sieveking-Krankenhaus is now home to one of Europe’s most modern high-tech operating rooms. Opened this month, the new facility incorporates a striking design with blue glazed walls framing the state-of-the-art operating room, and two large windows providing access to daylight.
Incorporating the latest technology, the unit allows digitalised X-ray images and endoscopy findings to be directly transmitted to the surgeons’ screens. Live links to other hospitals, practices or to national and international congresses can also be set up.
Established as a European reference centre for minimally invasive surgery techniques, the new operating room also features the EndoALPHA system from Olympus, allowing operating procedures to be optimally planned. “With the optimisation of the operating room, we have contributed to the development of system integration and surgery.
Ergonomics, efficiency and the flow of information will all be improved”, explained Heinz Jacqui, managing director of Olympus Winter & Ibe GmbH. In the future, video and audio links to other departments in the Ev Amalie Sieveking Krankenhaus can be created to, for example, the gastroenterology and radiology departments. The high-tech facility also includes the HDTV 1080 standard. Dr Thomas E Langwieler, head of surgery explains: “The use of high-resolution HDTV camera systems together with NBI (Narrow Band Imaging) allows even the smallest of changes in the stomach or breast to be detected when performing tumour operations.”
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