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Vol. 69, No. 3
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Black box aids doctors in the operating room
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LIJ in NHP among 1st hospitals in the country to use technology BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Northwell Health is putting cutting-edge “black box” technology in operating rooms to enhance the safety and well-being of patients. Operating rooms in Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park will be the first in the nation to use a technology called OR Black Box, according to a news release from Northwell. The technology, consisting of video cameras and microphones, monitors various activities and machines in the operating room and produces data that gives medical professionals more insight into how a patient’s surgical experience can be improved. “I think it is very innovative for Northwell to be the first health system in the United States to use this technology,” said Dr. Mark Jarrett, Northwell senior vice president. “The OR Black Boxes enables surgical teams to learn, minimize risk
and improve care. It is a proactive approach to improving safety and replicating favorable practices.” OR Black Box was created by the Canadian medical technology start-up company Surgical Safety Technologies. The Black Box has been used by surgeons in Canada and Europe for the past two years. The inventor of the OR Black Box said the technology has come a long way since the first prototype was developed in 2014. “I’m absolutely convinced that this will change the way we practice surgery and bring a level of openness, transparency and accountability,” said the OR Black Box inventor, Dr. Teodor Grantcharov. “No one would question the value and the impact the black box has made in the aviation industry.” Much like a flight data recorder, which uses recorded data from a variety of aircraft sensors to analyze specific aircraft performance parameters, the black box gathers Continued on Page 61
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Local and state officials marched alongside more than 2,500 Long Island residents against the recent anti-Semitic attacks. See story on page 2.
Buckley application will not add new students BY R O S E W E L D ON Buckley Country Day school’s application for a $5 million capital project that will include a parking lot renovation, dining hall expansion, addition to the headmaster’s
house and six new classrooms foresees no change in enrollment. The project had been in development for two years, Headmaster Jean-Marc Juhel said at a February 2019 Board of Trustees meeting in the Vil-
lage of North Hills. A public hearing on the plan, which has been revised, was to be held on Wednesday after being postponed from March 2019. “We created a master plan for what we needed to do to Continued on Page 60
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