HoloSurg (the system of visualization for surgeons)

HoloSurg — the interactive system developed by the Spanish company Exovite consisting of several holographic panels and intended for carrying out surgeries. HoloSurg outputs the medical images (received with the help X-ray devices, computer or magnetic resonance imaging) in a format of the mixed reality, and doctors get access to such picture by means of Microsoft HoloLens glasses.

The technology allows doctors to see at the same time real and virtual objects in the operating room. A system displays information in any place, comfortable for the doctor, scanning the premises with all objects which are in it and creating the three-dimensional map of a real environment. The sizes of virtual panels can be changed, and for their movement gestures and voice commands serve.

2017: The first transaction

In October, 2017 the first surgery using the HoloSurg system took place. It was carried out in the Madrid clinic of General Hospital Universitario.

Through HoloSurg to the patient deleted a malignant tumor in muscles. It is in the future going to use a system in traumatologic and orthopedic transactions.

Microsoft HoloLens glasses began to use for removal of malignant tumors

According to the doctors who began to use HoloLens thanks to these points carrying out transaction considerably accelerates. For example, as noted, that procedures which took eight hours earlier can be executed in four and a half hours. Such saving of time reduces fatigue of the surgeon and finally promotes increase in its productivity.

Doctor Ruben Perez Mananes (Rubén Pérez Mañanes) from the Madrid clinic of Gregorio Marañon says that his medical institution first-ever used 3D - printing in oncological surgery — in 2014, and in the 2017th it became the pioneer in application of points of the mixed reality for radiological visualization in the operating room.^[1]

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