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WALL-E, meet EVA: ‘Robo-doc’ navigates on its own, frees doctors to focus on the critically ill

By Guest PostMay 26, 2013Health, Technologybrain function, encrypted patient data, eva robot, intensive care unit, intouch health, ipad, irobotcorp, memory bank, neuro icu, neurological, paul vespa, remote presence robot, robot eva, ronald reagan, rp vita, technological features, the robot, ucla medical center

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, the world’s first hospital to introduce a remote-presence robot into its neurological intensive-care unit in 2005, now welcomes the RP-VITA, the first robot able to navigate the hospital on its own.

UCLA staff affectionately dubbed the 5’5″, 176-pound robot “EVA,” for executive virtual attending physician. Unlike earlier models that physicians steered via a computer-linked joystick, this version drives on auto-pilot, freeing doctors to devote more time to patient care. (more…)

Man who received nation’s first ‘breathing lung’ transplant at UCLA thankful for gift of life

By Guest PostMarch 23, 2013Healthabbas ardehali, americans, australia, breathing lung technology, breathing lung transplant, canada, candidate, david ross, Europe, fernando padilla, gift of life, high risk transplant, incurable disease, lung disease, near physiologic state, ocs, organ care system, oxygen tank, pulmonary fibrosis, ronald reagan, shortness of breath, Technology, transmedics, ucla, ucla medical center

Grandfather, 57, looks forward to celebrating Easter with family and friends

Fernando Padilla could barely breathe or walk more than a few steps. An incurable disease, pulmonary fibrosis, was causing his lungs to turn to hardened scar tissue, and he was permanently tethered to an oxygen tank. His only hope was a double lung transplant.

In November 2012, he got an early-morning call that a pair of donor lungs was available. (more…)

UCLA Uses New Device to Replace Aortic Valve in Patients Who Can’t Have Open-Heart Surgery

By Guest PostAugust 19, 2012Healthaortic stenosis, aortic valve, blood flow, calcium deposits, cardiopulmonary bypass, chest wall, heart, heart failure, jonathan tobis, open heart surgery, quality of life, richard j shemin, ronald reagan, tavr, tavr procedure, ucla, ucla medical center, valve replacement

UCLA has performed its first transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), using a new device approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to replace an aortic valve in a patient who was not a candidate for open-heart surgery. The procedure took place on Aug. 9.

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is part of a growing trend of hospitals nationwide offering this new minimally invasive procedure. (more…)

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WALL-E, meet EVA: ‘Robo-doc’ navigates on its own, frees doctors to focus on the critically ill

Man who received nation’s first ‘breathing lung’ transplant at UCLA thankful for gift of life

UCLA Uses New Device to Replace Aortic Valve in Patients Who Can’t Have Open-Heart Surgery