at the Angeles Metropolitan Hospital a milestone took place in the country in terms of medical overview: the first mixed reality surgery, Which was in charge of Michell Ruiz Suárez, teacher of the Faculty of Medicine of the UNAM, And several students from this house of studies.
For this procedure, which consists of a innovative system of lenses that allow to visualize a hologram of the patient, the technology was used Microsoft HoloLens 2 i Dynamics 365 remote support.
Ruiz Suárez, of the program of High Specialty for Specialist Doctors of the National University, point out that training systems with technologies such as this are key in teaching for future doctors, who in the face of the pandemic saw their education affected.
The surgery, explained the expert in elbow and shoulder surgery, was performed in December 2020, with the direction of Thomas Gregory, Of the Hospital Avicenne AP-HP, in France, and in her participated his university students.
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The experience arose at the invitation of The years passed; company dedicated to the manufacture of shoulder implants, in order to work on a project with Microsoft for holographic surgery that promoted training for specialists from 13 countries.
Like in the series of television, Ruiz Suárez emphasized, the technology allows to reconstruct the bony system of the patient, which is presented / displayed to doctor by means of specialized lenses which also allow simulations of surgeries, perform precise and accurate operations in real time, and receive international advice if necessary.
“What we do is project, in a virtual way, the bone structure of the patient that is done from a tomography. What we do is process the images on the computers, upload the files and through applications transform the two-dimensional, three-dimensional images and, finally, a hologram, “he said.
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Although at the moment this image is seen by those who wear the lenses, the technology can be adapted to a system that allows it to be observed through screens by a wider audience, which will be very useful for teaching.
The above, thanks to the fact that this type of technology does not require larger infrastructure, since all you need are lenses and a WiFi network, Which allows surgical telecare.
This way, a trained surgeon may perform the operation while advised by one or more remote experts, Also highlighted the researcher.
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“The next step will be holographic navigation“Which means that not only will the images give real-time feedback, and they will be able to capture our position to make the necessary corrections,” said the expert from Angeles Metropolitan Hospital.
The teacher said that the original idea was to provide surgical telecare that would help continuing medical education in the medium term. However, with the pandemic this technology came to solve some of the problems of distance learning, especially in surgical specialties.
HoloLens 2 and Dynamics 365 Remote Assist technologies like others similar, they are important for teaching orthopedics and for soft tissue surgeries, so their potential for use is wide.
In Mexico there are other simulation developments, such as virtual reality systems, so that educational institutions can use them to help in distance learning, commented the also expert of the National Institute of Rehabilitation.
“Continuing medical education is expensive, as it involved traveling to specialized centers and sometimes having to go on waiting lists; however, the pandemic came to show us that what it does is shorten the limitations on accessing the best education at all times“, Said Ruiz Suarez.
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