As a result, most surgeons report experiencing discomfort while performing minimal-access surgery, a 2022 study found. About one-fifth of surgeons polled said they would consider retiring early because their pain was so frequent and uncomfortable. A good mixed-reality headset, then, might allow a surgeon to look at a patient’s surgical area and, without looking up, virtual screens that show them the laparoscopy camera and a patient’s vitals.
“I’m usually turning around and stopping the operation to see a CT scan; looking to see what happened with the endoscopy [another small camera that provides a closer look at organs]; looking at the monitor for the heart rate,” Horgan says.
Horgan says that wearing headsets during surgeries has improved his effectiveness while lowering his risk of injury.
Just if it wasn’t clear to anyone else.
Admittedly, I only ever entered an operating room under anesthesia, but could you just, you know, put the displays somewhere else?
This seems like one of those informercial “problems”.
As someone who does this exact thing, no you can’t just put the displays somewhere else. None of this shit is wireless. Wireless is verboten in healthcare.
Which leads to my initial reaction: aww poor surgeon has to tilt their head a bunch, perhaps move their torso or even their feet? Of course this is the reason to retire early not the millions they are paid in the corrupt healthcare system.
I’m the motherfucker that let you have displays in the OR. I contorted my body in incredible ways to get that cable to your displays. My body hurts all the time. I cut through walls and spent long nights and early mornings to get those displays working so you only had to slightly move your head.
Bitch ass fucks.
Ok but neither of you should be experiencing workplace injuries. If wireless is unacceptable sterilized wired headsets should be accessible. I don’t want doctors getting RSI
But the vision pro is permitted to use wireless?
“I wanna drink some milk, but it’s so flimmin-flammin hard to open.”
This is the weirdest cyberpunk future.
On one hand, we have surgeons performing surgery with literal augmented reality,
On the other hand, if you’re poor you’ll never have an iota of a chance of seeing that doctor.
Sounds like an american healthcare problem to me
Yeah, this sounds like a problem for only the 5% of the world who live in a specific country.
That latter point doesn’t really apply if you leave America.
I wonder who experiences greater discomfort surgeons or factory workers.
Not that we can currently afford factory workers this tech of course. I’m just imagining if the price of this type of tech was to drop dramatically perhaps it could be used in other fields.
Although by then maybe those jobs would be automated anyway?
Surgeons are the most bitch-ass people among doctors, who are already shitty. I install their gear and will literally run away from one who looks like they’re coming with a question. We work when they’re gone, so only a shithead among shitheads would have so little of a life to hang around and question my work. I imagine the ones that know anything about networking are at home but sometimes there’s this little fuck coming acting like he knows computer networks because he works on humans.
Seems similar to factory mechanics using Google Glass to look up schematics etc.
Of course, Google being allergic to commitments discontinued it anyway, despite its successes in industrial applications.
Even in non-surgical settings, operating room ergonomics is a huge area of research right now. Even in a routine colonoscopy there are often a half dozen workers attending to the patient, and making sure they can all reach at a comfortable angle and height, without twisting their neck to read a display, is a big challenge.
Need more cranes, harnesses and mission impossible theme songs. There, I solved the problem.
I want to live in the aug reality future where professionals like surgeons dand uncompromising standards with zero absolute zero bullshit like ads or intrusions
Looks like you’re doing brain 🧠 surgery! Exciting! Like the world of Cheetos and fritolay products!
Taste the rainbow!