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Xbox Kinect Helps Surgeons in the Operating Room
A team at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre has come up with a novel use for the Xbox Kinect during surgery in an operating room.
Credit: Sunnybrook Media
Maintaining a pristine sterile field is extremely important in an operating room. Doctors sometimes have to step in and out of the sterile field to operate a computer with a keyboard and mouse to gather additional information on the state of a patient. The surgeon then has to scrub up to the elbows once again, and then re-enter the surgical field. Rinse, wash, and repeat as needed.
Now doctors at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Canada are using the Xbox Kinect to solve this problem. They can just gesture in the air to control the computer and adjust CT images without ever having to sacrifice the sterile field.
View a video of the Xbox Kinect in a hospital operating room.
"This is going to change the way we interact with our imagery in the operating room, potentially forever," says Dr. Calvin Law, liver cancer surgeon at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. "It has really given us a new way to work with the images while we are operating without breaking sterility or obviously putting our patients at risk."
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