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New Cochlear Implant project
– The Department of Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) Surgery has started a project to evaluate cochlear implants (CI-video from YouTube) surgery at the Interventional Centre. Before the operations the patients are functioning as deaf with the diagnosis anacusis. CI surgery is performed in a highly specialized surgical procedure where tiny electrodes are placed in internal anatomical structures of the patients ear, the spiral-shaped cochlea, to stimulate the patient's hearing nerve directly. Parts of the CI device is also placed under the skin behind the patients ear. A surgical microscope is used during the procedure, and biomedical engineers verify the electrode placement by use of sophisticated software for measurements of nerve stimulation. The combined angio and surgery suite at the Interventional centre facilitates high quality CT-scans to verify optimal CI electrode position in the patients inner ear. The positioning of the electrode is critical for the patient's outcome, thus thoroughly investigated in the project. CI electodes from different vendors are scrutinized in the project, and the ENT team lead by dr Greg Jablonski is very exited about the advanced tecnological set-up in the OR at the Interventional Centre. On the picture to the right Dr. Jablonski can be seen using the surgical microscope, and the X-ray C-bow attached to an industrial robot is seen in the background. The ENT surgeons hope to be able to develop and use intraoperative image support to optimize electrode placement in the future.
Laparoscopy teleconference lecture from Oslo to Zarajevo
– Today dr. Bjorn Edwin, senior abdominal surgeon at the Interventional Centre and the Department of Surgery at Rikshospitalet, gave a teleconference lecture on laparoscopic distal pancreas resection to the staff at Department of Abdominal Surgery at Zarajevo University Hospital in Bosnia and Hercegovina. Dr. Edwin has a patient material in distal laparoscopic pancreatic resection of more than 170 patients, some dating back to 1997. He described the patient population in general including follow-up results indicating a shift towards treating this patient group not as acute cases but cases with chronic disease and long time survival with laparoscopic treatment. Then he went on to describe surgical techniques and important issues related to dissection, anatomical landmarks and surgical instruments. Finally dr. Edwin presented a number of cases in a video. The session was ended with some comments and remarks from Zarajevo, and the conclusion was to establish a closer collaboration between the two surgical centres.
Symposium for Professor Halfdan Ihlen
– A symposium with the title "Echocardiography- the new stethoscope" was held at Rikshospitalet on Mach 19th in conjunction with professor Halfdan Ihlen's retirement. Over many decades professor Ihlen has been one of the leading profiles within cardiology. He also is one of the true pioneers in the development of-, and clinial use of non-invasive echocardiography both at Rikshospitalet and internationally. He established per-operative echocardiography in cardiac surgery at Rikshospitalet, leading to a permanent collaboration between cardiologists and cardiac surgons. His impressing research merits includes 139 scientific papers, supervision of 9 PhD's, co-supervision of another 16 PhD's, and a large number of scientific presentations nationally and internationaly. Many of professor Ihlen's publications are published in top-rated journals, including Cardiology. Halfdan Ihlen held a professorate at the Interventional Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo from 2002-2008. At the symposium the vital professor Ihlen summarised the development in echocardiography over the last three decades. The rest of the Symposium programme was on the level of any state-of-the-art conference in cardiology.
eHealth collaboration with Bosnia Hercegovina
– The Interventional Centre and the IT Department at Rikshospitalet have started a collaboration with the authorities in Bosnia Hercegovina to establish a health portal in Bosnia Hercegovina. The project is funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to support peacemaking activities in the region. The Bosnian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sven Alkalaj, the Bosnian Ambassador Elma Kovacevic and the Norwegian Ambassador in Bosnia Jan Braathu participated in a reception at Rikshospitalet on March 6th. The hospital's CEO Morten Reymert and Jacob Bergsland from the Interventional Centre also participated together with the staff at the centre. The collaboration between Bosnia and Rikshospitalet dates back to the mid 90'ties when Norwegian physicians went to Bosnia after the war. Several surgeons, cardiologists, radiologists and nurses from the Cardiovascular Clinic in Tuzla have visited Rikshospitalet over the years, and videoconferencing has been used to facilitate collaboration and education. Bosnia and Hercegovina has a lot of skilled manpower resources, and the project contributes to fund an advanced electronic platform for use within the Bosnian health sector.

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