Minimally invasive surgery (MIS)
While MIS has become the mainstream of surgical treatment, Show Chwan Health Care System establishes the international class Asian IRCAD Center in cooperation with the IRCAD/EITS Laparoscopic Center in Strasbourg, France. In an MIS, the endoscope and robots are used together to minimize sutures, bleeding, pain, hospitalization and recovery time due to its minimal invasion. Therefore, it is good news to patients 【more】
64-slice volume CT scanner
Are you afraid of medical examinations due to worries about the danger and side effects from invasive examinations? The 64-slice volume scanner provides a total solution with its superb computer post-processing features which facilitate delicate and fast diagnosis. As it takes simply 5 seconds to finish a cardiovascular examination, it has become an ideal instrument for screening heart diseases, lung cancer and colorectal cancer 【more】
Four-dimensional ultrasonography
Do you want to see your baby inside your uterus? The 4D ultrasonography at Changhua Show Chwan Memorial Hospital delivers fast imaging capacity to instantly display the image of your baby in order to let you know what (s)he is doing inside your uterus. Also, the 4D ultrasonography helps obstetricians to capture the health condition of expectant mothers to make the correct diagnosis and decide on the proper prognosis 【more】
Wireless capsule endoscopy
Though gastrointestinal problems are common among modern people who work under great stress and have unbalanced diets and inadequate rest, very few of them would take the unpleasant upper gastrointestinal (UGI) endoscopy. Therefore, Changhua Show Chwan Memorial Hospital introduces the painless wireless capsule endoscopy from Israel, so that patients simply swallow a capsule as big as a cod liver oil capsule in order to let specialists examine their gastrointestinal condition 【more】
Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy (ESWT)
The ESWT is the latest medical instrument introduced by Changhua Show Chwan Memorial Hospital with a large investment. It is unique among hospitals in central Taiwan for healing persistent plantar pain, tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis), calcific tendinitis of the shoulder and nonunion of facture. Also, the ESWT is highly recommended by Superintendent Wang Ching-chen, also professor of orthopedics, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital. It is an ideal option for patients with chronic pain who do not want to undergo surgery 【more】
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
The MRI introduced by the Changhua Show Chwan Memorial Hospital is the latest model from General Electric. It presents the sectional tissue structure and focus of the human body in terms of various tomographic images. As the MRI is a non-invasive examination, no side effects on humans have been reported home and abroad over the past decades or so 【more】
ZEUS Robotic Surgical System
In order to enhance surgical quality and to minimize the suture of patients, Changhua Show Chwan Memorial Hospital has spent a huge amount of capital to introduce the first and only ZEUS Robotic Surgical System in SE Asia. During surgery, the surgeon only needs to operate the robotic surgical system to perform the surgery. Currently, surgeons of the Changhua Show Chwan Memorial Hospital have successfully completed the laparoscopic cholecystectomy and peptic ulcer perforation with Zeus 【more】
