With different types of glasses/goggles appearing on the market and applications for augmented reality technologies, the surgery world will also evolve to allow easy access to more information, more accurate, permanent and even remote data during procedures. Even the communication between surgical staff or between surgeons will improve in order to enhance the efficiency and improve surgical results.
The following video shows the first use of Google Glass associated with VIPAAR (Virtual Interactive Presence in Augmented Reality). It's absolutely amazing how they operate on people these days!
During this shoulder replacement, the surgeon is helped and guided on the virtual surgical field by another surgeon, who's not in the OR, but in his office and who has strong experience in this procedure and can instructor the surgeon.
The second surgeon can remotely show with his hands and some instruments, transformed in virtual elements when transferred to Google Glass, the type of actions to lead while discussing with the operating surgeon and having the live images in front of him.
Another pair of high-tech goggles have also appeared recently in the news bringing new hope in order to improve surgery and provide better treatment against Cancer as they are able to highlight cancerous cells during a surgery.
These new goggles may help avoid a riskier and costly second surgery and thus reducing complications. As you can see on the following picture the cancerous cells appear clearly to the surgeon thanks to the goggles and the dye that has been injected in the patient before the surgery.
You can read more about this fascinating innovation here in an article from the BBC or check out the video report on this subject here.
These new types of applications of wearable tech/augmented reality may bring better patient care, more safety and collaboration in the operating room. The first trials are just finishing, but in the coming years, maybe months every surgeon and medical staff will be equipped with one of those devices if the advantages described in this post are confirmed.
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