The Room

The vascular hybrid room--operating room of the future.

The last two decades have seen a paradigm shift in the treatment of vascular related diseases from once traditional open surgical repairs to the entire vascular tree being amenable to percutaneous interventions. Neither the classic operating room nor the conventional angiography suite is optimal for both open surgery and endovascular procedures. Important issues for the vascular hybrid operatin...

Precautions in the Operating Room during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Corona is a respiratory virus that can cause death as well as many complications in recovering patients. Preventive and control measures to protect people who are exposed to the corona virus and contract it depend on the type of work performed and the risk of exposure to infected people and contamination of the workplace. Due to the non-necessity of performing non-emergency surgeries and taking...

The waiting room.

R oman had been in the hospital for 7 days, and no one had visited him. He had been diagnosed with meta-static lung cancer after losing pounds from an already thin frame. He had not been very active since retirement, but the cancer left him even more sedentary, and he had to move into a nursing home. He was admitted to us on this occasion with pneumonia. Because the infection was located in his...

Elephant in the Room

The Virtual Room Inhabitant

In this paper we describe a new way to improve the usability of complex hardware setups in Instrumented Environments (IEs). By introducing a virtual character, we facilitate intuitive interaction with our IE. The character is capable of freely moving along the walls of the room. In this way, it may offer situated assistance to users within the environment. We make use of a steerable projector a...