03/14/2024

British Medicine is taking a step forward by exploring augmented reality technology in healthcare. Surgeons in London successfully performed spinal surgery using virtual reality glasses (VR) from Apple for the first time in the UK.

Equipped with Apple Vision Pro headphones for £2,700, (approx. 13,500,000 Colombian pesos) The medical team continued the operation at London’s Cromwell Hospital.

Innovative technology allows surgeons and medical teams to have better vision during the intervention. However, it is not surgeons who use it instead an instrumentalist who is present at the operation and works side by side with the surgeon, using the device to prepare, follow the procedure and select the appropriate tool.

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Suvi Verho, chief nurse at London Independent Hospital, expressed her admiration for the technology, calling it a “game changer”. Professional shows that his glasses “Eliminate human error. “It takes the guesswork out of it. It gives you confidence in the operation,” Verho said according to the Daily Mail.

The operation was carried out by surgeon Syed Aftab two weeks ago the first application of this technology in medicine in the UK.

According to Aftab, he highlighted this This technology will “superpower” your staff’s skillsbecause it would be able to turn a novice nurse into someone with ten years’ experience, according to what he told British media.

This was achieved after the UK Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, urged that the country’s National Health Service adopt artificial intelligence (AI) in medical practice.

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