The General Surgery Service of the Hospital 'Virgen del Rocío' of Seville and the Image-guided Surgery Unit of the 'Hospital Clínico' of Madrid have created a working group whose aim is to boost innovation in surgical technology. 

Engineers from the Superior Polytechnic Schools of the University of Seville and the Miguel Hernández de Elche University are also collaborating in this unique and pioneer initiative along with the Spanish Federation of Health Technology Companies. 

On the occasion of the first meeting of the working group, several examples of progress in various areas of surgical technology development and innovation were presented, such as:

• computer-assisted surgery (robotics and mini-robot design projects);
• image and navigation (interventional oncology, real time lymph node navigation and image analysis applied to the hepatic transplantation process);
• process and system engineering (home hospitalisation and use of magnets in minimally invasive surgery);
• biomaterials for surgical use (perianal fistulas sealing system, prosthesis and new suture)

 

Further information: 

• Original news article - Saludinnova (in Spanish)