Advances in microtechnology have impacted on the orthopedic surgeon’s ability to perform knifeless, bloodless, ultra-precise minimally invasive spine surgery. Many surgeons seek strategies that ...

A "smart" needle with an embedded camera is helping doctors perform safer brain surgery. The device was developed by researchers at the University of Adelaide in South Australia and uses a tiny ...

A nearly 3-inch-long metal needle was left in a woman’s abdominal tissue during a 2014 open-heart surgery at St. John’s Regional Medical Center, triggering a $40,400 fine, state officials said ...

We then drilled a small hole in their skull and inserted the needle so that it was adjacent to the blood vessel. In all three cases, the needle was able to detect that it was indeed next to the blood ...

A tiny mechanical wrist can make surgical incisions the diameter of a sewing needle and then bend inside your body by as much as 90 degrees, opening new doors in needlescopic surgery.

Measuring barely 0.03 millimeters, the needle was used to inject a clot-dissolving drug into the patient’s retinal vein. Both the robot and the needle were made specifically for the surgery.

Epidurals can help with pain during surgery and with some types of chronic pain. Find out what happens and who shouldn’t get them. ... The epidural needle is longer than a normal shot needle.