Telesurgical Unit

A telesurgical unit is a still mostly theoretical hospital surgical unit that is equipped for telesurgery – surgery on a patient without the operating surgeon being physically present. A few examples do exist, but for the most part, they are still restricted to laproscopic operations only.

A telesurgical unit essentially has two requirements:

1. An operating room equipped with the robotic equipment to carry out any and all surgical procedures, together with camera systems and sensing devices all manufactured to clinical standards, and a high-bandwidth, extremely low latency dedicated access line to a medical internet.

2. A surgical suite equipped with a wide ranging and intuitive to use mix of virtual reality and augmented reality interfaces to allow a surgeon to operate without worrying about how the interface works, instead free to concentrate on the patient.

This suite would have all the necessary interface equipment and display apparatus present as well as a high-bandwidth, extremely low latency dedicated access line to a medical internet.

The two sections would work independently. In a pinch, just the operating room would be installed, and all surgeries would take place via surgeons in other hospitals, anywhere on the globe.

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Telesurgical Unit

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VR Interfaces: CyberMan GVD510-3D
Released December 2005, the CyberMan GVD510-3D head-mounted display is a stereoscopic display unit, with a resolution of 640 x 480. Made by Kopin Corporation, China, this unit is essentially part of the new trend of video eyewear, combining HUD and HMD in one device.

New Nvidia GPU: A Supercomputer in a PC?
The GPU, or graphics processing unit is the heart of any 3D accelerator graphics care. It is a powerful workhorse, frequently more powerful than a PC?s CPU ? central processing unit ? and dedicated solely to graphics. The pace of GPU advancement has picked up substantially in recent years, with Nvidia and ATI Technologies, going at it hammer and tongs, to try and outdo one another.

Large Image Display:Chrysalis (2007): Preparation for Telesurgery
Part one of a four part series taking a look at the French film Chrysalis and the views expressed within on how a telesurgical operation would work. Part one deals with the basic concepts.

Large Image Display:Chrysalis (2007): Extracting the Target Organ
Part three of a four part series taking a look at the French film Chrysalis and the views expressed within on how a telesurgical operation would work. Part three examines the interface technology the surgeon uses and how nearly all of it is capabilities we already have.

Large Image Display:Chrysalis (2007): Preparing for Surgery
Part four of a four part series taking a look at the French film Chrysalis and the views expressed within on how a telesurgical operation would work. Part four wraps things up, looking at how the film extrapolates the technologies to logically follow.

Large Image Display:Chrysalis (2007): Switching to Scans
Part two of a four part series taking a look at the French film Chrysalis and the views expressed within on how a telesurgical operation would work. Part two looks at the display technologies used to render the patient on the surgeon's end and compares to technologies we have today.

Telemedicine Tele-abused
There is a firm, which specialises in phone and telehealth services to help relieve the stress of hospitalisation. They provide a telephone/television unit next to the beds of more than 160 NHS trust hospitals in the United Kingdom. They may well be abusing their priviledged position.

VR Interfaces: Fluidhand Prosthetic Hand

Fluidhand is a product of the Orthopaedic University Hospital in Heidelberg, Germany. It is the first complete hand prosthesis in which each finger moves separately, without being a separate unit.

VR Interfaces: Philips MCA

One of the first mobile clinical assistants to hit the market, was the Philips MCA in 2006. Created as a partnership between Philips and Intel, this relatively primitive wireless data input unit, was designed to be held in one hand, and interacted with by a stylus in the other.

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