Surgeons at Royal University Hospital are now using a new mobile diagnostic imaging scanner thanks in part to a $1-million donation from Saskatoon’s Remai family.
The O-arm provides surgeons an unprecedented 3D look at patients’ anatomy and the results of procedures in real time right in the operating room.
It is used during spine, brain, trauma, cancer and orthopedic surgeries.
"What this technology allows us to do is… provide greater safety to patients," said Dr. Ivar Mendez, Saskatoon Health Region’s head of surgery. "It allows us to shrink the time and, more importantly, it allows us to properly organize and plan new surgical procedures that may not have been possible before.”
The RUH Foundation says, combined with surgical expertise at the hospital, the acquisition of the O-arm makes RUH the most complete surgical spine centre in the country.
In recognition of the donation from the Joseph Alfred Remai Family Foundation, the hospital’s operating room family waiting area was officially named the Joseph Alfred Remai Family Foundation O.R. Waiting and Consult Area.
