Google’s augmented reality glasses have allowed several doctors to participate from different parts of the planet in the first surgical operation in the world with this technology.
Google Glass is a device composed of a camera, GPS, Bluetooth, microphone and a small viewfinder that allows, for example, the surgeon to view vital signs without the view of the surgical field.
The Department of Traumatology of the Clinical Center, Pedro Guillén, Manager Google goggles has been placed for transplanting to a 49-year-old patient chondrocytes of the knee, a type of cell that is located in the cartilage.
Guillen, who has become the first doctor in the world to operate with these glasses, has explained his experience.
FROM CALIFORNIA TO SYDNEY
“I have placed me sunglasses, which only have one blade, with a built-in camera that transmitted over the internet to more than 160 people everything I saw and I have asked from California and from Sydney,” has confirmed the doctor.
Guillén has emphasized that it is a “very large” step for the teaching of medicine, to avoid that doctors have is to move.
Google device also allows the possibility to gather information on the patient instantly access your clinical history in the cloud or “simultaneously receive indications or other medical advice”, said Guillen.
Google Glass, which also records videos in HD, has also been developed by a Spanish engineer, Julián Beltran, who stressed to Efe that it’s a technology that will revolutionize the world medicine.
Thanks to the device, the doctor Homero Rivas of the U.S. Stanford University medical school, also of viewing intervention, has been able to instruct real-time doctor Guillén.
“A doctor’s campaign in Rwanda that has never faced a brain operation can consult archives or talk to another neurosurgeon not present and this is a revolution for telemedicine,” he told Efe Iñigo Expert, one of the spokespersons of the Clinical Center.
