Experience medical technology at Karl Storz

The KARL STORZ Visitor Center is literally brimming with inventive spirit and innovation. You can explore all of this and much more up close during the “Experience Medical Technology” city tour series. **Visitors gain insights into medical technology** With inventive spirit and technical skill, Dr. med. h. c. Karl Storz designed the first ENT instruments and headlamps as early as 1945. His vision was to make diagnostic and therapeutic tools available to medicine that had not existed until then. Over the years, he developed high-quality endoscopes that made minimally invasive surgery possible and continue to shape the field to this day. Quality and innovation have been at the heart of this family-owned company ever since and continue to inspire visitors during the regular guided tours in the “Experience Medical Technology” series. But spots are in high demand—so it pays to act fast. **Modern Imaging and State-of-the-Art Operating Rooms** Participants get to experience just how high-resolution and precise imaging has become through a small experiment. You’ll also learn from the Tuttlingen-based medical technology experts how intubation can be performed in the blink of an eye—for example, in an accident—using a C-MAC from KARL STORZ. And if the fascination with medical technology hasn’t taken hold yet, it certainly will by the time you experience minimally invasive surgery, as visitors are even allowed to try their hand at it themselves. However, it quickly becomes clear that operating via a screen is not so easy and requires a lot of practice. In the integrated operating rooms, known as OR1, interested visitors then learn about the networked technologies and instruments used to treat patients during surgery. Here, it becomes clear once again why Tuttlingen is the global center of medical technology. **About KARL STORZ** The medical technology company KARL STORZ was founded in 1945 in Tuttlingen, Germany, and is an international leader in the field of endoscopy.