The Ajax Pickering Hospital operating room staff were excited to invite Ajax Mayor Shaun Collier and Pickering Mayor Kevin Ashe, as well as the Presenting Sponsor – Steve Apostolopoulos from Durham Live – to come in and check out the two new “towers” used during minimally invasive surgery that were funded by the great success of the 29th annual Mayors’ Charity Golf Classic.
Vic Sgro, Chair of the Mayors’ Charity Golf Classic as well as of the Ajax Pickering Hospital Foundation’s Board of Directors, was also on hand to thank the staff for their incredible work that they do, and for caring for our community every day.
Most minimally invasive surgery procedures involve the use of small, “keyhole” incisions to serve as ports for special instruments during your surgery. Depending on the location, these incisions are usually a half-inch long or less. One port provides access for an endoscope, a narrow tube with a lighted camera at the end that projects images to a screen. Surgeons operate through the other ports with long, narrow instruments.
And the surgeons are using all this equipment and technology to look at the tiniest of details inside of our bodies. No one wants to miss a variation in colour, patterns and structures if it means giving a patient the “all clear”.
As our own surgical staff explained, with the best camera and monitor available, these towers’ sharper 4K pictures provide a truer-to-life clarity of colour and detail so important in minimally invasive, microsurgical, and general surgery procedures. Higher contrast; clearer image edges; less distortion; increased visual field; higher-resolution; sharper images; and higher precision will now be the norm in the operating room.
