Izzy Benasso was playing a casual game of tennis with her father on a summer Saturday when she felt her knee pop. She had torn a meniscus, one of the friction-reducing pads in the knee, locking it in ...

When you go under the knife for a surgery, it's not just the surgeon who operates on your body. Surgical assistants provide critical help for complex procedures, from making minor incisions to ...

The use of robotics in surgery began in the late 1980s, but as technology has progressed, robotic surgery has become the standard of care for minimally invasive surgeries. Anne Osdoit, CEO of ...

The present as well as the future holds exciting opportunities for advanced practice nurses (APNs), not the least of which is participation during surgery as a first assistant. In 1990, when the ...

UMass Memorial Medical Center has purchased a robotic surgical assistant that will help neurosurgeons with complex procedures. UMass Memorial purchased the robotized surgical assistant, as it is ...

Dr. Chris Krpan, an orthopedic surgeon at Adventist Health Sonora, estimates he has done thousands of knee replacement surgeries in 21 years in Calaveras and Tuolumne counties. In the past three years ...