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Operating Room of the Future (FOR)

Av Marianne Haugvold

The project "Operating Room of the Future" (FOR) is a collaboration project between St. Olavs Hospital HF, University Hospital of Trondheim and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU),Trondheim, Norway. The day-today management is a responsibility shared between Department of Surgery and the Medical Faculty. The Operating Room of the Future has close collaboration with the research foundation SINTEF, National Centre of Competence - 3D Ultrasound and with the National Centre for Advanced Laparoscopic surgery (NSALK). In the National Health Plan it is emphasized that NTNU should have special responsibility for reseach within medical technology.

St.Olavs Hospital and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), are forerunners in developing an integrated university clinic. Research and teaching is a natural part of the integrated hospital activity. This close cooperation between clinical and basic research is unique both nationally and internationally.

The Operating Room of the Future is an arena for research and development. FOR includes six operating rooms - one for each operating clinick. The operating rooms as unique "laboratories", made to development, test and apply new technology and new treatment modalities. FOR project are multi-diciplinary and prototypes can be testing and clinical implemention of new technology and new treatment modalities. 
The most important goal for FOR is research to obtain better and more safe patient care, more efficient logistics and better architecture of operating departments. Teaching is also an important task for FOR - training of health care personel in the use of electro-medical equipment. 
FOR is a center of competence for design of operating departments and today we have agreements with our industrial collaborators making it possible for the health care authorities of central Norway to realize such research and development.

The FOR project is multidisiplinary with close collaboration between clinicans, technologists, scientists and industry. FOR is a research platform where new prototypes can be developed and tested unde safe conditions. Teh most modern medical equipment will be available at FOR. FOR is also an example how various professional diciplined and medical specialities can utilize the same equipment, areas and competence. 
FOR is a research platform focusing on research which can provide better patient care. the introduction and testing of image-guided minimally invasive techniques, or so-called key-hole surgery, has been an important research topic since several of these methods have yhe potential to be less traumatic and with less complications than traditional open surgery. The role of ultrasound and navigation in minimally invasive therapy is explored.

At FOR there is a possibility to perform a broad spectre of science work of multi-diciplinary character. Research is carried out by PhD candidates, scientists, students and clinicans. In addition several bachelor and master degrees are performed at FOR.

One important goal for FOR is to find good solutions for future hospitals and flexibility is important for the application and evaluation of new metods in practical surgery. Medical equipment and cables are moved out of the operating room, making it a better place for the health care personell to concentrate on the surgical procedure. 

The Operating Room of the Future is a multidiciplinary project and an area for clinical research and develompent of medical technology with focus on The patient of today - the technology of tomorrow.

Partners

  • Partners

    Collaboration with the industry


    The Operating Room of the Future have made agreements with Olympus, Siemens, Sony and Covidien. These agreements include delivery and continued upgrading of equipment. This means that we will have the most modern equipment available.

                                               



    Sony has delivered and installed a "visible light network" based on High Definition (HD) – video and DICOM-standard for high quality image processing in the operating rooms. This AV/IT solution is the first of it's kind in Europe. It makes it possible to store live videos and still images from operating procedures and to share this experience with any center in the world using DICOM visible lights PACS-archives for electronic patient records.

                                             
                                             

    Olympus has delivered the most advanced equipment within laparascopic surgery. The technology can be runned by a nurse outside the "sterile field" or by the surgeon through a touch-panel or by voice control. High Definition (HD) videoscope is the last development within laparoscopic treatment and can be used for other image guided minimally invasive procedures as well.

                                          

    Siemens has installed the best technology in Europe within angiography for operating rooms. The equipment includes so-called Dyna-CT, which is an advantage for treatment of various conditions by endovascular technique. The technology gives the possibility of getting excellent "on table" 3D CT-like images without having to move the patient to a CT-scanner. We think that this is of special importance for the treatment of patients who have aortic dissection, vascular trauma and aortic aneurysm, especially those who need stentgrafts with the application of sidebranches.

                                          

    Covidien delivers a complete line of surgical products and instrumentation that surgeons utilize for laparoscopic, endoscopic and traditional open surgical procedures, and lymphatic mapping. This features the original surgical stapling instruments which were first introduced in 1967 as part of the Autosuture Company. Tyco Healthcare delivers surgical instruments for improved access in laparoscopic gastric bypass, the procedure for clinically severe obesity, and other advanced laparoscopic procedures. For example, the ENDO GIA Universal XL surgical stapler cuts and closes tissue with a secure line of staples. The LigaSure (tm) vessel sealing system gives permanent vessel occlusion, it doesn't just ligate vessels, it actually fuses vessel walls to create a permanent seal.

      

    Collaboration in research


    In addition, we have close cooperation with SINTEF regarding research and development.

                                         


    SINTEF has more than 10 years experience with research and development making prototypes for medical technology to improve patient treatment. Through the national center of competence for 3D ultrasound in minimally invasive surgery, our research group has developed advanced navigation technology making it possible to guide complicated surgical procedures using 2D and 3D images from MR, CT-scans and ultrasound. Through prospective clinical studies this technology is investigated further at The Operating Rooms of the Future.

     

     

    NTNU - Strategic objectives:

    Research
    Research at NTNU is to have recognized international standing in all disciplines. Selected strong point areas are to be at the international leading edge. Research at NTNU is to be characterized by relevance, top-level expertise and interdisciplinary cooperation. The quality of our research is to be further enhanced by actively seeking cooperation and alliances with prominent scientific groups nationally and internationally.

     

Publications

Research

Contact

  • Enquiries

     

    E-mail: Jan Gunnar Skogås
    Mobile phone: +47 982 80 585

     


    Responsible

    Ola D. Sæther (MD, PhD, Prof. Medicine)
    Head of Department of Surgery 
    St. Olavs Hospital
    Mobile phone: +47 915 69 713
    E-    mail:     Ola D.Sæther

     

    Øyvind Ellingsen
    Head of     Department of Institute of Circulation and Imaging, NTNU
    Phone: +47     7359 8822
    E-mail:     Øyvind Ellingsen      

    Jan Gunnar Skogås
    Managing Director
    St. Olavs Hospital
    Mobile     phone: +47 982 80 585
    E-mail:     Jan Gunnar Skogås

     


    Responsible - medical

    Hans O. Myhre (MD, PhD, Prof. Medicine)
    Department of Surgery (Scientific advisor)
    St. Olavs Hospital
    Mobile phone: +47 951 49 688
    E-mail:     Hans Olav Myhre 

     

    Ronald Mårvik (MD, PhD)
    Head of Department of National Center for Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery
    St. Olavs Hospital
    Mobile phone: +47 900 55 166
    E-mail:     Ronald Mårvik 


    Conrad Lange (MD)
    Head of Vascular Surgery,
    Department of Surgery
    -Temporary unavailable

     

    Asbjørn Ødegård (MD)
    Department of Radiology
    E-mail:     Asbjørn Ødegård
    Alternative contact: Torbjørn Dahl (MD)
    Mobile phone: +47 416 61 498
    E-mail:     Torbjørn Dahl

     

     

    Researchpartners

     

    Toril A. N. Hernes (MSc, PhD)
    Research Director at SINTEF Health Research, Medical Technology
    Mobile phone: +47 930 28 341
    E-mail:     Toril Hernes

    Thomas Langø (MSc, PhD)
    Research Scientist at SINTEF Health Researh, Medical Technology
    Mobile phone: +47 909 62 913
    E-mail:     Thomas Langø
      

    Industrial partners

     

    Helge Rygh
    Olympus
    Mobile phone: +47 913 52 907
    E-mail:     Helge Rygh


    Magne Fiskvik
    Siemens
    Mobile phone: +47 930 45 631
    E-mail:     Magne Fiskvik

     

    Merethe Rygh
    Sony Norway
    Mobile phone: +47 932 13 336
    E-mail: Merethe Rygh

     

    Jørn Eide
    Covidien
    Mobile phone: +47 480 75 010
    E-mail:     Jørn Eide

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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Publisert: 30.03.2009 13:14 Oppdatert: 14.04.2011 13:43

Marianne Haugvold


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