Date: 6/11/2011
TUMSPR News: An intelligent navigation system for performing delicate surgeries which had been designed by faculty members of Tehran University of Medical Sciences was unveiled at Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex on June 9, 2011.
An intelligent navigation system used for performing delicate surgeries, especially those of head and neck, was unveiled at Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex at the presence of Dr. Ahmadinezhad, Dr. Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi and Dr. Bagher Larijani on June 9, 2011. This high-tech apparatus had been designed by faculty members of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS).
Eng. Amirinia, the head of the presidential Center for Technology and Innovation Cooperation said production of this machine is the fruit of tremendous efforts, identification of opportunities, reacting momentarily and facilitating bureaucratic functions without which this breakthrough would not have been possible.
He added that not only the domestic needs would be met by the mass production of the machine but also the country would be able to export as similar machines would cost about $500000-700000 in foreign countries but the one presented here would only cost $200000-250000. He then said foreign companies had estimated Iran’s market demand for those goods to be around $350,000,000.
Dr. Alireza Ahmadian, the project manager, who was the second to take the podium, compared surgical navigation to a global positioning system (GPS) that helped surgeons have more accurate estimates of lesions lying in inaccessible or less accessible locations and confirmed it would provide confidence as well as more secure and more precise operations. He emphasized that the machine would increase the quality and success rate of delicate surgical operations.
Dr. Ahmadian informed that the machine had successfully passed its phantom, cadaver and clinical trials and it had proved to be operating flawlessly in comparison with American or European products.
Talking about the clinical trial of the project, Dr. Sadr-hosseini, the clinical ENT surgeon of the project, said the navigation systems could help different surgical groups, especially endoscopic sinus surgeons, skull base surgeons and orthopedists neurosurgeons to locate the lesions precisely and minimize the risk of complications.
Having been trained by similar machines in the US, Dr. Sadr-hosseini said a decade ago Iranian ENT surgeons were able to compete with world surgeons but introduction of navigation systems made a huge difference but fortunately today we have produced this high-tech machine and could equip operating rooms with the device.
Outlining the Ministry of Health and Medical Education’s plan for economizing on foreign exchange expenditure, Dr. Vahid-dastjerdi said the opportunity created by the production of this machine would guarantee the rendered health services to be of higher quality. She then said the Ministry had saved $150 million by introducing some medications into the market that previously used to be imported in the past and estimated the savings would amount to $300 million by the introduction of 15 more drugs.
After unveiling the surgical navigation system, Dr. Ahmadinejad said it would be impossible to exclude surgery from the body of medicine as this would jeopardize the health of people and accommodating Iranian surgeons, who are well-known in the world for being skillful, with this device would lower human error rates close to zero.
On the necessity of useful and applied science, Dr. Ahmadinejad said any nation who sought to be respected had to believe in itself and continue its pioneering work on the frontiers of science. Referring to the estimate made by foreign companies about the domestic demands for the device, Dr. Ahmadinejad promised to equip the state’s hospitals with surgical navigation systems.
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