A big frustration for surgeons up until now is that when they needed to study an x-ray image in the middle of an operation, they had to stop what they were doing, take off their surgical scrubs, then rescrub after reviewing the images. In the process they lost precious time, and the flow of the surgery was broken.
That’s all changing now thanks to solutions like GestSure, which is built with Kinect for Windows to enable surgeons to easily navigate through surgical images in the operating room by making simple gestures with their hands.
“Just by using your hands in front of the Kinect you can actually control your x-ray without scrubbing out,” says Eric Vallieres, a general thoracic surgeon at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, Wash. “I can correlate what’s happening on the patient with what’s happening on the images, so there’s better flow of surgery, and that translates into better care for my patients.”
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