Improving surgical instrument cleaning processes through collaborative efforts between central sterile supply department and operation room [PDF]
Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare EpidemiologyObjectives: The development of medical technology has led to increasingly intricate surgical instruments, varying in types and structures. This complexity has posed challenges in the instrument reprocessing.The Emergency Care Research Institute in the ...
Hsu Xiu-Yue, Lin Li-Hua
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Use of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence in Surgical Instrument Recognition [PDF]
BioengineeringAccurate identification of surgical instruments is crucial for efficient workflows and patient safety within the operating room, particularly in preventing complications such as retained surgical instruments.
Syed Ali Haider +8 more
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SegMatch: semi-supervised surgical instrument segmentation [PDF]
Scientific ReportsSurgical instrument segmentation is recognised as a key enabler in providing advanced surgical assistance and improving computer-assisted interventions. In this work, we propose SegMatch, a semi-supervised learning method to reduce the need for expensive
Meng Wei +5 more
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Factors associated with deficiencies in packaging of surgical instrument by staff at a single center in China [PDF]
BMC Health Services Research, 2022 Background Surgical instrument packaging quality directly affects the safety and performance of surgery. We aimed to investigate the factors causing defects in surgical instrument packaging and recommend strategies to prevent defects in surgical ...
Yanhua Chen +3 more
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Occlusion‐robust markerless surgical instrument pose estimation [PDF]
Healthcare Technology LettersThe estimation of the pose of surgical instruments is important in Robot‐assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (RMIS) to assist surgical navigation and enable autonomous robotic task execution.
Haozheng Xu, Stamatia Giannarou
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Surgical Instrument Detection Algorithm Based on Improved YOLOv7x [PDF]
Sensors, 2023 The counting of surgical instruments is an important task to ensure surgical safety and patient health. However, due to the uncertainty of manual operations, there is a risk of missing or miscounting instruments.
Boping Ran +3 more
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Can gamified surgical sets improve surgical instrument recognition and student performance retention in the operating room? A multi-institutional experimental crossover study [PDF]
BMC Medical Education, 2023 Introduction Surgery requires a high degree of precision, speed, and concentration. Owing to the complexity of the modern world, traditional methods cannot meet these requirements.
Mohsen Masoumian Hosseini +5 more
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Surgical instrument detection and tracking technologies: Automating dataset labeling for surgical skill assessment [PDF]
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 Surgical skills can be improved by continuous surgical training and feedback, thus reducing adverse outcomes while performing an intervention. With the advent of new technologies, researchers now have the tools to analyze surgical instrument motion to ...
Shubhangi Nema, Leena Vachhani
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Surgical Instrument Signaling Gesture Recognition Using Surface Electromyography Signals [PDF]
Sensors, 2023 Surgical Instrument Signaling (SIS) is compounded by specific hand gestures used by the communication between the surgeon and surgical instrumentator. With SIS, the surgeon executes signals representing determined instruments in order to avoid error and ...
Melissa La Banca Freitas +4 more
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Effect of Quality Control Circle Activities on Reducing the Failure Rate of Surgical Instrument Pre-Treatment [PDF]
Risk Management and Healthcare PolicyYandan Wang,1 Xiulan Zhou,2 Yanqiu Zhu,1 Yuanmei Dan,1 Zeping Huang,1 Ling Xiang1 1Department of Sterile Processing Nursing, Sichuan Friendship Hospital, Chengdu, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Nursing, Sichuan Friendship Hospital ...
Wang Y +5 more
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