Highlights of 2012 at UCI
Year brings scientific advances, national accolades, international outreach, student achievement and loss of campus stalwarts
Browsing: Hospital
Keeping hospitals healthy
Linda Dickey leads UC Irvine Medical Center’s efforts to prevent the spread of hospital-acquired infectious diseases. Several initiatives have proven so effective that they’ve been adopted at other facilities as healthcare workers unite against a deadly enemy.
Playing the pain away
Alumnus Ryan Sharpe helps hospitalized kids cope via video games.
UCI medical team saves mother of triplets
Angie Tran-Bloom experienced postpartum complications after rare pregnancy and delivery of identical triplets.
Her next-best friend is a robot
Shannon Dargenzio says she is grateful UC Irvine Medical Center surgeons were able to remove a benign thyroid tumor without leaving a scar.
Expanding the role of robots
SpineAssist system adds to UC Irvine firsts in the operating room. Surgeons continue to find innovative uses for the technology, including thyroid, lung and colorectal procedures.
UC Irvine specialists avert amputation
Doctors at UC Irvine Medical Center save man’s leg after blood clots block circulation.
UC Irvine Medical Center rated tops in OC
U.S. News’ inaugural metropolitan-area hospital ranking places UCI fourth in greater-Los Angeles area and cites eight specialties.
Acute stroke team saves teenager from severe brain injury
Swift action by medical center’s acute stroke team saves teenager from severe brain injury.
Surgical team puts golfer back in the swing
Rey Buack is among 10 percent who survive ruptured aortic aneurysm, thanks to UC Irvine Medical Center surgeons.