He said that King Fahd Medical City performs 11,000 surgeries annually. Al-Suhaibani: Digital operating rooms ... raise the level of accuracy and reduce medical errors, colleague Al-Ghanami, in his interview with Dr. Al-Ghannami colleague Al-Suhaibani in his interview with Dr. Al-Suhaibani, Riyadh - Dialogue - Muhammad Al-Ghanami
Dr. Mazen bin Ali Al-Suhaibani, Director of the Anesthesia and Operations Department at King Fahd Medical City, confirmed that the Medical City is seeking, through its extended strategic plan for the year 2016 AD, to develop the infrastructure for operating rooms and to and develop (6) operating rooms, including 4 digital rooms for children and (3) Digital operating rooms for the brain and nerves, and providing them with the latest in medical technology in terms of navigation and medical imaging devices, as well as devices for CT scans to raise the level of accuracy in surgical procedures and reduce medical errors.
Dr. Al-Suhaibani added that the city intends, through its future projects, to modernize 15 operating rooms in the city, including 10 digital rooms, which include the latest advanced technological devices and help increase the capacity to receive patients.
To learn more together, dear reader, to the details of the following dialogue
Tell us about the need for development of digital operating rooms?
At the beginning of the establishment of the Medical City, the first designs for operating rooms were traditional and did not accommodate major operations, in addition to their lack of electronic control systems and temperature control, and with the acceleration of bringing in modern technologies and subjecting them to the medical field, the situation became urgent to develop and modernize operating rooms.
Believing in King Fahd Medical City to provide the best methods of medical care for children, children''s operating rooms have been developed and renovated to accommodate critical and complex disease cases, documenting them with the latest technical means and professionally and using technology to control medical and non-medical devices by the surgeon through the advanced control screen inside the rooms In addition to broadcasting it directly to anywhere in the world for the purposes of education and advice during these operations. As the annual rate of surgeries performed in the city is (11) thousand operations annually, including multiple operations for adults, children, preterm infants, plastic surgery, orthopedics, urinary tracts, nose, ear, throat, brain and nerves. In addition, the city is a medical edifice that contributes to medical training and research programs, and aspires to be a prominent medical center at the local and global levels.
What about newly introduced technologies?
King Fahd Medical City witnessed the introduction of the latest modern technologies for operating rooms, and the first technology was launched in 2007 the magnetic resonance device inside the operating rooms (brain suite), which is the first of its kind in the Middle East, as it is considered an advanced room for brain surgery. The nerves are connected with the magnetic resonance device and the rest of the other devices, and it gives high-resolution results without any complications, and magnetic rays (iCT), in addition to navigation devices for brain and spine operations, and a robot (robot) for tract operations, gynecology and brain and nerve operations, as the city studies Medical, in cooperation with world centers, the use of robots in joint operations.
The technologies also include smart operating rooms that contain movable walls for the possibility of moving them and making repairs that may not be available in traditional, in addition to a holder for medical devices.
The digital rooms consist of medical endoscopes that are connected to a central computer for documentation instead of the disks that were used for recording, as these discs are subjected to damage, as they are not of accurate and high quality, and they also control medical devices during surgical operations, by means of factors. Voice or touch, this technology works on photographing and recording information in addition to education and training, as it enables these rooms to connect between rooms as well as linking the different departments, and this technology eases the pressure on operating rooms, especially when students attend the College of Medicine where students can follow up operations The surgical team works with the medical team moment by moment by using this technique from outside without the need to enter, while applying the legality of the patient''s right and preserving his privacy.
What is the desired benefit of this technology?
The digital operating room technology enables the surgeon to communicate with advanced reference centers in the world to discuss the possibility of consultation during the conduct of operations, and in this way it can reduce the treatment expenses for many diseases abroad.
Through this technology, the Medical City can perform more operations in more rooms, as the old system did not allow orthopedic operations, for example, except in the orthopedic operating room, but in the presence of this technology, any specialized operation can be performed in any operating room where it does not require The matter is only to change only connections that fit the required specialty.
These digital rooms are characterized by brain and nerve devices, magnetic resonance and navigation devices that can ensure that all the tumors are removed, through high accuracy in imaging during the procedure, which allows the surgical team to remove all the tumors since the first operation, and this is unlike what was happening in the past where the operations were performed. Then the x-ray is performed to ensure that it is completely removed.
One of the main reasons for the trend to modernize operating rooms and the introduction of modern technologies is to keep pace with global medical technology, and the status of the medical city as one of the largest and most modern medical cities in the Gulf and Arab region requires the provision of the latest technologies, as the main goal of modernizing the operating rooms was to equip them to be able to accommodate all specialties. In addition to covering the increasing demand for specialized services for adults and children, and the development witnessed by the operating rooms reduces the infection inside these rooms, as it was previously painted with paints and their floors are covered with regular tiles, while now the introduction of acetylcholine, which is considered anti-bacterial, which reduces the incidence of Infection inside the operating rooms, God willing.
How many digital rooms are currently operating in the city?
The city has (6) operating rooms, including 4 digital rooms for children in addition to 3 digital operating rooms for the brain and nerves, equipped with the latest medical technology, including navigation, medical imaging and CT devices, in addition to equipping 2 rooms with an infrastructure that allows them to be digital. At what time.
Through its future projects, King Fahd Medical City intends to modernize about (15) operating rooms in the city, including 10 digital operating rooms.
It includes the latest advanced technological devices and helps to increase the capacity to receive patients.
Have these modern devices been previously studied to see their quality?
Yes, as it has been proven that the magnetic resonance devices that are used for the spine, brain, nerves and tumors, have accurate imaging, and contribute to determining the size of tumors in patients, and thus the patient avoids conducting more than one surgery as it was in the past. As for digital technology rooms, there are no specific studies on their feasibility.
Is there a trend to digitize all operating rooms in the city?
At the present time, there is no orientation to these rooms, as (4) rooms out of a total of (6) rooms for children have been satisfied, and (10) new rooms have been identified out of a total of (15) digital operating rooms that are being d for adults. We do not need at the present time for all rooms to be digital, but we are preparing the infrastructure to additional digital rooms.
In what areas are digital rooms used?
It is used in laparoscopic surgery, as this surgery has developed during the last twenty years, and it depends entirely on the accuracy of images during the conduct of surgeries, which is provided by digital rooms as these rooms are characterized by the accuracy of imaging, and they are also distinguished by that they record and document information and operations, and thus save and document General surgery, orthopedics, pediatric, ENT, brain and nerves, endoscopy, and urology.
Can complex operations be performed without binoculars in digital rooms?
Yes, it is possible, but do not use the cameras in these rooms, and use other high-resolution cameras for photography.
Can digital room cameras be used in the live broadcast of operations and training?
Live broadcasting and training are the most important aspects of digital operating rooms, as King Fahd Medical City is an academic center, and the number of trainees increases every year, and as the operating room cannot allow all trainees students, these rooms enable these students to view the stages of surgery and communicate with the medical staff by voice. They are visible inside the halls.
