Laparoscopy

2022: For the first time, a robot surgeon performed laparoscopy without human help

In early February 2022, a team of researchers from Johns Hopkins University robot surgeon Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot STAR performed laparoscopic surgery on the soft tissues of a pig without human involvement. More. here

2018: Development of a prototype laparoscopic VR simulator

On July 9, 2018, ThePsycho, the developer of innovative products in the field of virtual reality (VR), announced the development by specialists of MedViAr (MedVR), a direction of ThePsycho, a prototype surgical simulator based on VR. The solution, called laparoscopic simulator MedVR LAP Expert 6 level of educational process realism, is a software and hardware complex with built-in surgical instruments. The simulator helps simulate surgery in laparoscopic (minimally invasive) surgery. More details here.

2017: Augmented Reality Use in Surgery

In May 2017, Cambridge Consultants introduced augmented reality technology for surgeons. The new development is capable of endowing doctors with "X-ray" vision.

Cambridge Consultants created a surgical system that, through a small incision, using magnetic resonance and computed tomography images, creates a virtual interactive 3D map of all the patient's internal organs. The program automatically applies color markup based on the tasks of the operation. The resulting picture is displayed on the displays of the Microsoft HoloLens headset worn on the head.

Augmented reality technology will give surgeons X-ray vision

Thanks to this decision, surgeons will be able to mark parts of the organs that must be removed before and during the operation, as well as see bundles of nerve fibers that need to be tried not to damage. The system allows you to remove an organ from a virtual card for detailed consideration of the area adjacent to this body part.

The new solution is expected to have an instant response to help less experienced surgeons perform complex manipulations during surgeries.

According to the authors of the project, they intend to achieve the highest degree of accuracy, which will exclude the likelihood of surgical errors. By May 2017, the technology is still being tested on dummies, that is, without the participation of living patients. Cambridge Consultants believe that it will take several years for the development to reach the mass level.

Augmented reality has the potential to fundamentally change surgical experience through the ability to easily provide surgeons with a new dimension of information, "says Simon Karger, head of surgical and intervention products at Cambridge Consultants. - While current platforms must still be ripe for clinical implementation, it is clear that the underlying technology has great promise for critical areas such as surgery[1]

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