According to Dr. Jeffery Wilkinson, board certified Obstetrician Gynecologist and faculty member at the University of North Carolina and currently working in Southern Africa, in the United States, women are immediately taken for a cesarean delivery once obstructed labor is diagnosed. However, in many parts of the developing world, there is no access to cesarean delivery and labor can last for daysoften resulting in the death of the baby. After delivery, the resulting damage commonly can cause unrelenting urinary incontinence of urine and/or stool, due to obstetric fistula. This leads to social isolation, and shame. Surgeons working in the developing world point to surgical lighting as meaning the difference between success and failure of countless surgeries.

The nature of the surgery I do requires a high quality light source that can illuminate the deep spaces of the pelvis where the damage has occurred. Ive tried numerous LED light sources as well as standard tethered light cord fiber optic headlights. None compare to my ONE HEADLIghT tetherless system explains Dr. Wilkinson.

Dallas-based Luminance Integrated Technologies (L.I.T.), which developed ONE Technology (Optical Navigation Engine), the advanced solid-state platform that powers the ONE HEADLIghT, says the company was founded on the idea that better surgical vision results in better patient outcomes. The ONE HEADLIghT system was designed to solve multiple problems that exist with lighting systems used around the world today.

We believe that through innovation and a market-guided focus, we can provide advanced, illumination technology solutions that enable better surgical vision, and in turn, better patient outcomes explains L.I.T. Surgical Founder and CEO, Austin Crowder.
Lighting in most hospitals in the developing world is almost always poor. One day, the power went out at the hospital and the back-up generator failed recalls Dr. Wilkinson. There was an emergency cesarean delivery in the other operating room. The surgeons were forced to continue operating by the glow of their cell phones to save both the mother and her baby. I walked over with my ONE HEADLIghT and it was as if the sun had been brought into the room. Both mother and baby did fine. Many of my colleagues have since adopted the new technologymost wont go anywhere without it.

Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is the most common cause of maternal death in Africa. Dr. Wilkinson and many more like him say improved surgical vision provided by the ONE HEADLIghT has saved countless lives in Africa by providing light in the darkest of operating rooms during routine and emergency surgery. I can say without hesitation, the ONE HEADLIghT is the best there is for work in the U.S. as well as in the developing world.

Luminance Integrated Technologies is a medical device development, manufacturing and sales company innovating surgical illumination products for the surgical market. Through the application of protected platform technology, LIghT has launched its first innovation, the ONE HEADLIghT system to improve the efficiency and outcome of surgical procedures.

This year marks the fifth anniversary of an independently owned Aston Martin, once a key member of Fords Premier Automobile Group. To celebrate, the bespoke British manufacturer of high-end sports cars launched the production version of its V12 Zagato. The limited-production sports car (just 150 will be made) is based on a short-wheelbase version of the DBS and is a collaborative effort between Aston Martin and Italian styling studio Zagato. The price of the Zagato starts at more than $520,000.

Overall, the LED lights are widely used for automotive lighting, and will come out with even more innovation in the future.