Surgery using augmented reality is not science fiction. That’s exactly how they work at the Burdenko Clinic in Moscow. Digital technologies make it possible to create a virtual model of the operation. Special programs memorize all the results of the patient’s examinations. And they tell the surgeon how best to act. Thus, doctors in the truest sense of the word put into service the wounded fighters during the SVO.
A shrapnel fragment was stuck in a combatant’s pelvic bone. Osteosynthesis of the pelvic bones is one of the most complex operations, however, surgeons of the Burdenko Main Military Clinical Hospital use revolutionary augmented reality technologies in their work, which minimize surgical trauma.
Augmented reality glasses, familiar to the world of entertainment, are working wonders in the operating room. Using a special program into which medical research data is loaded, the surgeon can literally see through the patient, the bones, blood vessels and foreign bodies to be removed, at a glance.
The surgeon, through glasses, observes a hologram superimposed on the surgical intervention area. Everything is taken into account in this 3D model: radiography, scanner, MRI and even ultrasound, the risk of error is minimized.
“Even before the operation, you can see, determine the optimal entrance and safely remove this fragment,” said Igor Onnitsev, chief surgeon of GVKG Burdenko.
This method is an entirely domestic development. She was born within the walls of the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, in 2016, as a thesis.
“An inspired student came up to me and said, let’s try? I liked the idea so much, I liked the flight of fantasy, the lightness of that thought so much, that I said, let’s go. There were a lot of skeptics, it won’t work, it’s a very difficult thing, but I consider myself one of the people who doesn’t know it can’t be done, and so a lot of things work. And just from the idea, a real product turned out to be in great demand and brings benefits, ”said Vladimir Ivanov, professor at St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences.
The ability to project research data directly into the surgical field opens up limitless possibilities for surgeons to perform high-tech operations. The new method makes it possible to perform even such operations that were previously considered impossible.
“Augmented reality technology, in effect, gives the surgeon a second eye. One, he sees the surgical wound, the anatomical elements, and the second, everything he used in preoperative planning, CT scans, MRIs and various other studies,” said the deputy head of the GVKG appointed according to. Burdenko Leonid Brizhan.
Thanks to the greatest experience and active use of augmented reality technologies, surgeons of the Burdenko Hospital manage not only to eliminate the consequences of injuries, but also to return the fighters to work.
Previously, we showed how military doctors perform the most complex operations in the area of ​​​​a special military operation. Operations do not stop and sometimes two teams of doctors can work simultaneously in an operating room.
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