VR surgery innovations
New techniques are enabling faster, safer procedures
Cheryl Guttman Krader
Published: Saturday, April 1, 2017
Because traction continues to decrease as cut rate increases well beyond current speeds, we need to be cutting faster than we are currentlyFUTURE ADVANCES Dr Steel named stereoscopic heads-up surgery, intraoperative optical coherence tomography (OCT), and modalities that will eliminate the need for tamponade as three things that will be ready for mass adoption with some additional ‘tweaking’. Heads-up surgery has an obvious benefit of improving surgeon ergonomics, but Dr Steel said its main advantages relate to enhanced visualisation and intelligent application opportunities. Intra-op OCT will also bring a new dimension to visualisation by providing surgeons with a ‘street view’. David Steel: david.steel@ncl.ac.uk
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