High! Put on glasses and watch the specialists perform the surgery from thousands of miles away
High! Put on glasses and watch the specialists perform the surgery from thousands of miles away
On October 29th, the "First National VR Technology 100 Hospitals Broadcast - Promoting Joint Replacement Optimization Operation Technology" was successfully held in West China Hospital of Sichuan University, and about 150 orthopedic surgeons and more than 1,500 doctors from 113 hospitals across the country observed two "artificial joint replacements" performed by Professor Pei Fuxing of West China Hospital through the Internet. Unlike the past, this live broadcast uses the most advanced virtual reality technology (VR) to show the entire process of surgery. In the field of medical and health care, VR technology is currently mainly used for doctor training, patient education, and demonstration of drug mechanism of action. This is the first live broadcast of joint replacement surgery using VR technology in China, marking that the medical education of West China Hospital of Sichuan University has entered a new high-tech era. With the continuous progress of orthopedic concepts, surgical techniques and medical devices, artificial joint replacement surgery in China has begun to develop on a large scale and in a standardized manner, and the operation time and perioperative complications have been greatly improved, improving the quality of life for a large number of patients. In China, Professor Pei Fuxing's team represents one of the highest levels of joint replacement surgery, and realistic surgical vision presentation and on-site explanation are the most effective ways to train young doctors. However, the number of people in the operating room is limited, and too many people watching on site will affect the operation to a certain extent. VR technology is a great solution to this problem. The technician will first collect the signal of the 3D camera at the surgical scene, and then distribute the surgical scene and the surgical field of view to the front end of the VR glasses through the broadcast server and transmission equipment set up in the operating room, so that the observer only needs to wear a pair of special VR glasses no matter where he is. According to Professor Pei Fuxing, because medical staff are a profession that requires lifelong learning, and the learning objects have the characteristics of non-repeatability and large differences, the meticulousness of observation is extremely demanding. Nowadays, with the help of VR technology, even if the observer is thousands of miles away, it is like being in an operating room, standing in the position of the surgeon, and the perspective is completely the same as that of the surgeon, clearly seeing the anatomical structure and the whole process of surgery. They can not only see every meticulous step and corresponding operation technique of the whole operation, but also see the tacit cooperation between the doctor and the nurse, between the surgeon and the assistant, and between the surgeon and the anesthesiologist. (Recommended reading: Polar Curtain Glasses vs. Storm Magic Mirror: Who is the Better Domestic VR Glasses? This article is from Sichuan Online, if you need to delete it, please contact kaity@yichao.cn Related reading: Glasses。