Orthopedic Surgeon Uses Apple Vision Pro for Rotator Cuff Surgery
Orthopedic Surgeon Uses Apple Vision Pro for Rotator Cuff Surgery
The ability to see and highlight critical details more easily or have surgery-aiding software could improve medical outcomes for all.
In this niche case the Vision Pro seems like it has some compelling benefits.
I was expecting to see something more interesting. Looks like he basically just used it to float a monitor and Apple Notes over the patient. Which surgeons usually just do with a LCD display and a VESA mount arm on the ceiling.
I guess the cool thing is that you don’t need to touch a display. It’s all hands free and super sterile. That said, it’s not doing anything that you can’t do now for 1/4the the cost.
Plus I would imagine a huge benefit is that you can use the UI for this without needing to physically touch anything that would get your hands contaminated or get the device dirty either. Pretty amazing stuff!
What would be really cool is if you can start to place virtual stereoscopic and volumetric displays over a patient. That way you were not just getting sterility, you were getting access to better visualization.
I’m sure as this type of AR tech evolves that’s the kind of thing we’ll see. It’s pretty cool.
Apple Vision is not the game changer, it’s an expensive dev kit. The tech still needs to shrink quite a bit.
This use actually makes sense.
Makes sense, I bet there is better product fit for this in future but its cool to see first adoptions.
Sterilizing that would be a bitch, was designed for level ofreliablety I would be comfortable with for surgery, and as with all medical equipment it should be bought with right to repair in mind (not the current practice and its an active problem).