Entering a New Era: 4K 3D Spatial Computing in Minimally Invasive Surgery — Transcript

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1. 0:04It would be 1990, in this
2. 0:07room, room five, I saw the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
3. 0:10And now, 37 years later, we're going to move into a new era,
4. 0:13I believe, where people operate with a virtual monitor.
5. 0:17We're about to do a laparoscopic operation,
6. 0:19and I'm going to be using a head mounted computer
7. 0:22that will project my surgical image virtually in space in front of me.
8. 0:25What we're measuring today is two things.
9. 0:27Number one, we're looking at the quality of the image.
10. 0:30This virtual monitor will provide us with a 4K image any place
11. 0:33we want to put it, any size we want to make it.
12. 0:35The other thing we're studying is ergonomics, because frequently surgeons
13. 0:39have to turn their shoulders to work, but the monitor is in a different direction.
14. 0:43So now my shoulders are turning one way, my head's turned the other.
15. 0:45For prolonged periods,
16. 0:46you can imagine that's terrible ergonomics.
17. 0:48With a virtual monitor, you can put your head in any position
18. 0:51that's comfortable for you, and the image you're looking at
19. 0:53will always be right there in front of you.
20. 0:55The really important part that's going to benefit both surgeons
21. 0:58and patients is
22. 0:58that means we can bring
23. 0:59a lot of information into our field that you can't currently do.
24. 1:03We'll be able to call up the electronic medical record
25. 1:05and review it right from the operating field, sterile.
26. 1:07Any X-rays, CAT scans, MRIs that we need and that we used to make our surgical
27. 1:12decisions, they'll be available to us right there virtually in our field.
28. 1:16As surgeons, I can't have a view that's too clear or too bright
29. 1:19and I can't have too much information.
30. 1:21And all that not only benefits me, but it's going to benefit our patients
31. 1:24going forward.
32. 1:253D imaging is very, very desired by surgeons right now.
33. 1:29If you use 2D, if you're someone like me who started out that way
34. 1:33and I've been doing it 30 years, you can learn to accommodate
35. 1:36and work in a 2D world even though you're a 3D being.
36. 1:39But for most people, if you give them a 3D view, that's what they're used to.
37. 1:44So a high resolution 3D bright, clear image makes it easier for surgeons.
38. 1:49They don't have to do you like me and learn extra tricks or tips?
39. 1:52This is a first.
40. 1:53No one in the world will have done this,
41. 1:54and it's going to happen right here at Houston Methodist.
42. 1:56And I'm really excited that in my career, I got to see the change to laparoscopy
43. 2:02that we initiated here at Methodist and now the change to spatial computing.