One day in mid-December, orthopedic surgeon Dr. Bruno Gobbato walked into an operating room in Jaraguá do Sul, Brazil, put on a HoloLens 2 mixed-reality headset and prepared for surgery.
Joining him remotely were fellow surgeons Professor Thomas Gregory, who was tuning in from Paris, and Dr. John Erickson, who is based in New Jersey. Gobbato’s patient had a collarbone fracture that hadn’t healed properly, so Gobbato needed to reposition the bone and perform a shoulder arthroscopy, which involved inserting a small camera into the joint to try to determine what was causing the man’s shoulder pain.
Gregory and Erickson were linked to Gobbato’s headset via the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Remote Assist app and shared his field of view on their computer screens through Microsoft Teams. They could see the patient and the holographic images Gobbato generated from a CT scan, one showing the patient’s damaged clavicle and another replicating his healthy clavicle. The three surgeons on
»Kerala Gets its First Milk Bank but is Donor Milk Safe for Babies? Here s All You Need to Know
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Kerala Gets its First Milk Bank but is Donor Milk Safe for Babies? Here s All You Need to Know
The Kerala milk bank, like all others will also maintain and ensure all their health statistics are made available at the hospital. (Image for representation /Reuters)
The concept of a human milk bank is not entirely new in India. The first of its kind came up some 3 decades back in Mumbai s Sion Hospital in 1989.
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Come this Friday, Kerala will get its first of a kind human milk bank titled Nectar of Life at the Ernakulam General Hospital in Kochi, the state s health minister KK Shailaja announced on Tuesday.
Now, pvt hospitals forced to threaten and beg staff to get immunised in drive
Now, pvt hospitals forced to threaten and beg staff to get immunised in drive
ByVicky PathareVicky Pathare / Updated: Jan 30, 2021, 06:00 IST
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Facilities are sending out internal circulars saying if an employee does not get vaccinated now and gets COVID-19 later, the hospital will not help with expenses; others are running social media campaigns to convince benefi ciaries
Ever since the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic began, all eyes were desperately set on the arrival of a vaccine as the only purported key to ending the outbreak. And yet, after the vaccine drive has finally begun, it emerges that beneficiaries need to be urged and almost threatened to avail of the inoculation all thanks to rife fears of side effects of the vaccination.
Updated Jan 20, 2021 | 10:48 IST
Of the around 3,000 recipients, 1,403 have been vaccinated, 1,302 did not come and 107 refused. Four people from the district developed minor AEFI to the vaccine. Covid vaccination numbers decrease in Pune on second day of drive | Photo Credit: AP
Pune: The district registered a fall in the number of recipients for Covid vaccination on Day 2 of the vaccination programme.
Of the around 3,000 recipients, 1,403 have been vaccinated, 1,302 did not come and 107 refused. Four people from Pune district developed minor AEFI to the vaccine. Pune district administration wants to vaccinate at least 100 people at each site.
The PCMC-run Jijamata Hospital could register just six recipients on Day 2. The primary health centre registered the highest number on January 18. Three session centres, Noble and Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital and Bharati Hospital in PMC limits were removed from the earlier list of 31 session centre
Updated Jan 17, 2021 | 10:53 IST
Of the total 438 healthcare workers vaccinated on Day 1, government hospitals witnessed a share of 43.37%. The second and the third lowest doses being provided were registered in two PMC-run hospitals. Private hospitals in Pune report better response to vaccines than government ones | Photo Credit: IANS
Pune: In the Pune municipal corporation limits, private hospitals recorded better response to vaccination programme than government facilities. The least number of doses were provided at the PMC-run Kamala Nehru Hospital.
According to a report by the civic body, around 200 healthcare staff, of the 400 workers selected on a random basis, were vaccinated at government hospitals. 47.5% of the total selected healthcare staff were vaccinated at government hospitals.