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The Globe and Mail - Patients in Pisa put under anesthetic from Montreal; Long-distance procedure a medical first
Published: 10 September 2010
A team from Montreal's º«¹úÂãÎè has pioneered a medical first by administering anesthesia via remote teleconferencing for surgery that was taking place in Pisa, Italy.
On Aug. 30, Dr. Thomas Hemmerling and his team from º«¹úÂãÎè's anesthesia department treated patients undergoing thyroid gland surgery in Italy, putting them to sleep remotely from a control room in Montreal.
"The practice has obvious applications in countries with a significant number of people living in remote areas, like Canada, where specialists may not be available on-site," Hemmerling told Postmedia News in an interview Friday.
