Tech heavy surgical specialties?

[DeadCactus]

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Which surgical specialties tend to be heavy on the toys and gadgets? I got my BS in engineering and a part of me misses being part of that world.

 

[Pir8DeacDoc]

ENT and Urology all tend to use lots of gadgets and have been fairly early adapters to technology.

 

[maxheadroom]

Every specialty has areas of technology.

Plastics -- lasers, newer plating systems (Sonicweld is super cool)
Ortho -- all sorts of new hardware
ENT -- Stealth
Neurosurg -- Stealth, intraop MRI, Mini-CT for spine
Gensurg/Uro -- DaVinci

 

[TUHopeful]

Vascular surgery is VERY tech heavy! Imaging, devices, stents, grafts, lasers, 3-D reconstructions. I know a vascular resident that did his PhD dissertation on EVAR devices. There is a Vascular surgeon at Michigan that has a PhD in engineering and does mathematical modeling to study flow dynamics and atherosclerosis development. It is definitely a technology driven field. While all surgical specialties have their toys, I would argue vascular has seen the most dramatic evolution in the last ten years driven by endovascular therapy and the imaging and device technology associated with that.

 

[skiz knot]

Which surgical specialties tend to be heavy on the toys and gadgets? I got my BS in engineering and a part of me misses being part of that world.

Orthopaedics FTW. Always new gadgets, innovative hardware, get to build stuff, break stuff, hammer, drill, scope, use the microscope, computer guided hip/knee/spine surgery, stem cells, growth factors, and pretty good pay for the toys and gadgets not used at work.