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Breakthrough hip replacement surgery with no overnight stay
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Barcelona hospital first in Spain to use hologram in complex surgery
3D technology reproduces patient's anatomy in glass pyramid, allowing team at Santa Creu i Sant Pau hospital to follow operation
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Robot surgeon performs 167 operations
Da Vinci Xi reduces patient’s average stay in hospital by one day
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Over 168,000 people in Catalonia are waiting for an operation
Average wait for surgery is 146 days, with over 26% of Catalan patients waiting for more than six months
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Catalonia's first lung operation without having to open rib cage
Barcelona's Sant Pau hospital uses new minimally invasive technique that significantly reduces postoperative pain
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Barcelona Clinic seeks donations to train eye doctors in developing countries
The hospital has become the first public university center in Europe after creating a teaching center in the surgical area
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World’s first 5G operation at Mobile World Congress
This new technology, showcased on the third day of the industry trade fair, would connect experts to surgeons in the OR
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Lightning McRuti: Catalan hospital smooths children’s trip to operating theater
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Vall d’Hebron Hospital pioneer in non-invasive pediatric surgery
The Vall d’Hebron Hospital in Barcelona, one of the pioneer hospitals worldwide in non-invasive surgery in children, is planning to use minimally invasive methods with 70 percent of its pediatric surgeries. This week various pediatric surgery specialists gathered in a congress at the Vall d’Hebron Hospital Campus to share their professional expertise. The Vall d’Hebron Hospital is one of the few hospitals capable of performing surgery on a newborn with a weight of less than 1.5 kilograms or on a 24 week-old fetus with spine bifida. Since the incorporation of Doctor Manuel López as Head of Services, pediatric laparoscopy has gotten a new boost. López has set the objective of performing the majority of the 2000 annual surgeries on children with innovative methods.
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Pioneering robotic surgery operation in Badalona
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Catalonia has 34 blood donors per thousand of population, almost double the European average
Surgeons in Barcelona extirpate a tumour in a 5 year old child using 3D model
A team of surgeons at the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital in the Catalan capital successfully removed a tumour from a five year old child by first preparing and practicing the “highly complex” procedure on a 3D printed tumour. The child had neuroblastoma, a difficult cancer to extirpate because of the surrounding blood vessels and arteries. In such cases, testing the procedure in advance "is key" because it allows surgeons to study the most effective way of extracting the tumour without damaging other tissues, and to test the method before surgery. This has been possible thanks to the use of a 3D replica of the tumour.