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BookmarkFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy
visited IRCAD on the 6th of September 2007
Four months after his election, French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited the IRCAD Institute (Research Institute against Digestive Cancer) on the 6th of September under the guidance of Professor Jacques Marescaux, President of the Institute. Theme of the visit: Research, Innovation, Robotics and New Surgical Technologies, Competitivity Pole. On this occasion, Nicolas Sarkozy also discovered the ASIA-IRCAD project, IRCAD's "twin" training and research center which will be inaugurated in May 2008 in Taiwan.
Full articleOperation Anubis
A world first in no scar surgery
Jacques Marescaux (France)
On April 2nd 2007, at the University Hospital of Strasbourg, Professor Jacques Marescaux and his team, B. Dallemagne, MD, S. Perretta, MD, D. Mutter, MD, PhD, FACS, A. Wattiez, MD, D. Coumaros, MD, successfully performed the first no scar surgery. This first human incisionless operation was carried out using a flexible endoscope for transvaginal cholecystectomy in a 30-year-old woman with symptomatic gallstones...Operation Lindbergh
First transatlantic robot-assisted operation
Jacques Marescaux (France)
Surgeons Achieve World First with Successful TeleSurgery from New York on Patient in FranceOperation Lindbergh, a complete telesurgical operation carried out by a team of French surgeons located in New York on a patient in Strasbourg, France, was a total success. This is the first time in medical history that a technical solution has proven capable of reducing the time delay inherent to long distance transmissions, thus making this type of procedure possible.
Argonaute 3D
Broadband technology serving the medical community
Share patients' medical records in real time for in-depth analysis
A new experimental application known as Argonaute 3D makes it possible to share patients’ medical records in real time for in-depth analysis and enhanced preparation of optimum surgical strategies.Following the success in 2001 of Operation Lindbergh - the world’s first transatlantic telesurgical procedure - France Telecom and IRCAD (Institute for Research into Cancer of the Digestive System) are continuing their partnership with the creation of the Argonaute 3D experimental platform...
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