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An Experimental Operating Room Project for Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery

National Center for Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, 7006 Trondheim, Norway; nsalk{at}online.no

Thomas Langø, PhD

SINTEF Health Research, Medical Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Yunus Yavuz, MD

National Center for Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway

With the challenges that the health sector now faces in accordance with readjustments and demands for increased efficiency, resource utilization, and innovation, we have initiated a project to develop the future operating room for advanced laparoscopic surgery. New hospitals are being built that contain numerous operating room theaters. To share experiences and avoid repeating the same mistakes as others, we find it suitable to build an "experimental" operating room theater where we can try out and study new equipment, logistics, and communications, and operating forms and new technology that both benefit the establishment of our hospital, as well as the establishment of other hospitals and their laparoscopic operating rooms nationally and internationally. The main goals in the project are, through research and development, to reveal information and develop technology and methods to establish more efficient and prospective patient treatment that is focused on quality. The project is deeply rooted in the established research environment in Trondheim, Norway. We will develop new integrated solutions in the laparoscopic operating unit to create a possibility to rapidly implement the results in the form of practical improvements, increased quality, and renovation in patient treatment. The goal is also that this will result in the establishment of new industry nationally.

Surgical Innovation, Vol. 11, No. 3, 211-216 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/107155170401100311


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