In what it says is the UK’s first 3D integrated operating facility, Olympus has installed two new Endoalpha integrated operating theatres at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (ARI), both featuring the latest Olympus Evis Exera III surgical endoscopy systems.
One theatre can produce HD 3D laparoscopic clinical images, which are displayed on 3D monitors suspended from ceiling-mounted spring arms. All the equipment within an Endoalpha operating theatre can be controlled via an Olympus sterile touchscreen, with ‘a new, improved and simplified’ graphical user interface. The Endoalpha system uses Olympus’s Endobase software for capturing HD digital still images and video recordings. Following procedures, Endobase allows doctors to create electronic reports for each patient, for storing on a central database server; these can then be recalled and reviewed from any networked computer. The Evis Exera III is ‘a universal platform that allows use of a wide range of camera heads and video scopes for both 2D & 3D procedures for all surgical endoscopy applications’.
