to Angeles Metropolitan Hospital a country took place in the country in terms of the medical landscape: the first mixed reality operation, who was responsible for Michell Ruiz Suárez, professor at UNAM Faculty of Medicine, and several students from this house of studies.
For this procedure, which consists of a innovative lens system that allows visualization a hologram of the patient, technology was used Microsoft HoloLens 2 Yes Dynamics 365 remote support.
Ruiz Suárez, from the program High specialty for specialist doctors of the National University, He said that training systems with such technologies are essential in teaching future doctors, who have seen their education affected in the face of the pandemic.
The surgery, explained the expert in elbow and shoulder surgery, was performed in December 2020, under the guidance of Thomas Gregory, from Avicenne AP-HP Hospital in France, and his university students attended.
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The experience came at his invitation Years have passed; company dedicated to the manufacture of shoulder implants, to work on a project with Microsoft for holographic surgery that promoted the training of specialists from 13 countries.
As in the television series, Ruiz Suárez pointed out, the technology allows the reconstruction of the patient’s skeletal system, which is presented to the doctor through specialized lenses They also allow simulations of surgeries, accurate and precise operations in real time and, if necessary, the receipt of international advice.
“What we do is to project, in a virtual way, the bone structure of the patient which is made from a tomography. What we do is process the images on the computers, the files are uploaded and through applications it transforms the two-dimensional images into three-dimensional images and, finally, a hologram ”, he specified.
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Although at the moment this image is seen by those who wear glasses, the technology can be adapted to a system that allows it to be observed on screens by a wider audience, which will be very useful for teaching.
The above, due to the fact that this type of technology does not require a larger infrastructure because all you need are glasses and a WiFi network, which allows surgical telecare.
In this way, a trained surgeon can perform the operation while being advised by one or more remote experts, the researcher also pointed out.
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“The next step will be holographic navigation, which implies that not only the images will provide real-time feedback and will be able to capture our position to make the necessary corrections “, the expert from Ángeles Metropolitano Hospital also pointed out.
The teacher said that the initial idea was to perform surgical telecare to help continuing medical education in the medium term. However, with the pandemic, this technology has come to solve some of the problems of distance learning, especially in surgical specialties.
HoloLens 2 and Dynamics 365 remote assistance technologies, Like others, they are important for teaching orthopedics and soft tissue operations, so their potential for use is wide.
There are other simulation developments in Mexico, such as virtual reality systems, Therefore, educational institutions can use them to help distance learning, said the expert from the National Rehabilitation Institute.
“Continuing medical education is expensive because it involved traveling to specialized centers, and sometimes you had to enter waiting lists; However, the pandemic has shown us that what it does is shorten the limitations to have access to the best education at all timesRuiz Suárez emphasized.
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