Analysis of microbial contamination during use and reprocessing of surgical instruments and sterile packaging systems. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 A surgical site infection (SSI) is one of the most common surgical complications. This study analyzed different sources of microorganisms in the air, on reusable surgical instruments, and the outer surface of sterile packaging systems during the use and ...
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Bacterial Contamination of Surgical Instruments Used at the Surgery Department of a Major Teaching Hospital in a Resource-Limited Country: An Observational Study. [PDF]
Diseases, 2022 Surgical instruments, be they disposable or reusable, are essential in any surgical procedure. Reusable surgical instruments should be properly sterilized or disinfected before use. However, the protocols are not always followed accordingly. This results
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Minimising carbon and financial costs of steam sterilisation and packaging of reusable surgical instruments. [PDF]
Br J Surg, 2022 Background The aim of this study was to estimate the carbon footprint and financial cost of decontaminating (steam sterilization) and packaging reusable surgical instruments, indicating how that burden might be reduced, enabling surgeons to drive action ...
Rizan C +3 more
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Mask then classify: multi-instance segmentation for surgical instruments. [PDF]
Int J Comput Assist Radiol Surg, 2021 The detection and segmentation of surgical instruments has been a vital step for many applications in minimally invasive surgical robotics. Previously, the problem was tackled from a semantic segmentation perspective, yet these methods fail to provide ...
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Female Sex is Associated With Increased Reported Injury Rates and Difficulties With Use of Orthopedic Surgical Instruments. [PDF]
Cureus, 2021 Introduction: Orthopedic instrumentation is generally made as one-size-fits-all. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of hand size and sex on ease of use and injury rates from orthopedic tools and surgical instruments.
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Musculoskeletal disorders and discomfort for female surgeons or surgeons with small hand size when using hand-held surgical instruments: a systematic review. [PDF]
Syst RevBackground Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs), also referred to as work-related musculoskeletal injuries (MSKIs), cause surgeons pain and discomfort. Implementing ergonomics in the operating room has helped reduce such symptoms.
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Splash Basins in the Operating Room: Clean or Contaminated? A Study on Bacterial Contamination in Splash Basins Used to Rinse Surgical Instruments During Surgery [PDF]
Nursing ReportsBackground: Preventing postoperative infection and promoting patient safety are essential responsibilities of the operating room nurse. In some hospitals, splash basins are used to rinse instruments during surgery, although previous studies emphasise the
Karoline Stavang Michalsen +4 more
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Concurrent Segmentation and Localization for Tracking of Surgical Instruments
International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, 2017 Real-time instrument tracking is a crucial requirement for various computer-assisted interventions. In order to overcome problems such as specular reflections and motion blur, we propose a novel method that takes advantage of the interdependency between ...
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Methods and datasets for segmentation of minimally invasive surgical instruments in endoscopic images and videos: A review of the state of the art [PDF]
Comput. Biol. Medicine, 2023 In the field of computer- and robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery, enormous progress has been made in recent years based on the recognition of surgical instruments in endoscopic images and videos.
Tobias Rueckert, D. Rueckert, C. Palm
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From Forks to Forceps: A New Framework for Instance Segmentation of Surgical Instruments [PDF]
IEEE Workshop/Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, 2022 Minimally invasive surgeries and related applications demand surgical tool classification and segmentation at the instance level. Surgical tools are similar in appearance and are long, thin, and handled at an angle.
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