Council Post: Augmented Reality In The Operating Room: AR-Enabled Headsets For Intraoperative Use

"Patient safety during and following surgery has improved in recent decades as a result of several factors. These include the widespread use of checklists, the implementation of quality improvement and team-based care models, and the introduction of measurement tools for monitoring performance and outcomes. More recently, the ability to leverage patient-level data has informed observational analyses, predictive modeling and artificial intelligence. The insights from these have elucidated, for example, which surgical approaches and techniques are most effective depending on patient characteristics and risk factors.

Surgeons and patients now stand to benefit from a host of emerging technologies that have the potential to improve accuracy and reproducibility, reduce invasiveness, and shorten operating and recovery time. Augmented reality is one such technology that holds great promise, in large part due to the improved visualization and image guidance capabilities that it enables. AR is already being used intraoperatively in several specialties including neurosurgery and orthopedic surgery..." Lire la suite