The operating room of the future

The operating room of the future will be designed to have peri-operative in tegration of all imaging capabilities. Pre-operative planning will became i ncreasingly important, as will integrated intra-operative neuro-navigation. The operative work space will be redesigned to have robotic capabilities. Operating rooms will be isolated. Self-contained modular and robotic monito ring will become remote through improved sensors. The operating microscope will disappear. Light and magnification wil be supplied by means other than optical microscopes.