Post Street Surgery Center now has a functional Digital Operating Room customized for arthroscopic surgery and designed with technology that promotes functional efficiency and optimal patient care.

Our Digital Operating Room has been specifically modified for orthopaedic arthroscopic procedures including hip, knee, shoulder, wrist, and ankle as well as teaching of open procedures with highest resolution photography available.

This custom operating suite can provide surgeons and other medical professionals with optimum control of the operating room equipment and overall operative environment and provide patients with access to specialized medical care.

Our system has the capability to stream real-time audio and video from the operating room to our conference room. This can be used for teaching of medical students, surgeons, patient , or family education (provided we have all appropriate signed releases). The video can be used via the internet for distant learning or to  a specialist's office. This provides improved efficiency, education,  and consultation opportunities.

How It Works

The Control System serves as the command center for the surgical suite. It can adjust the lights, instruments, sound and other aspects of the operative environment to fit the procedure, or surgeon preference.

Control System

• The nucleus of the Digital OR
• A surgical command center
• Medical staff spend less time managing surgical devices and devote more time to the patients.
• Using voice control or wireless touch panel, medical staff use the control system to:
• Control systems and devices. For example:
• Adjust fluid management system (FMS) pressure during a procedure
• Increase speed of mechanical shaver
• Control what surgical image appears on which monitor
• Document patient information
• Manipulate the surgical environment, including lighting, temperature, even music
• Enables real-time streaming audio and video of procedures via Internet to classrooms, office or consulting surgeons in other locations.
• Modular system can be configured to work with a hospital’s existing information systems.

Can be upgraded as new features and technology are released.

Digital networking capabilities of the Information Management System enable the medical team to capture, edit and store patient information, including digital video and still images. It can interface with the hospital’s own computer system, providing access to patient information at the touch of a button.

Information Management Systems

• The IMS can function independently or as a component of the Digital OR.
• Surgeons use the system to digitally capture, edit, export and print endoscopic surgical images and patient information.
• Medical practitioner to select the most significant and useful images captured during any type of surgical procedure
• OR staff can export the images to DVD, CD or USB and integrate them into the hospital’s information technology architecture, where they can be stored with the patient’s electronic medical record.
• Stores images that have been captured in high definition, without sacrificing resolution
• Important because surgeons need clear images to make diagnoses and treatment decisions.

• IMS was designed with input from surgeons who had used an earlier version
• Details as simple as adding a tilt-screen and as sophisticated as enabling high-definition capture.