As we all know by now, the iPad can be used in many ways, and we know it’s a hit product. The Japanese seem to embrace the device, too (it came out in that country a few days ago). And for some strange reason, Japanese doctors in particular love the iPad. Last month, we reported about one living in Fukuoka in Southern Japan who x-rayed his device and posted a picture on his blog.
And now a team of doctors at a hospital run by Kobe University has actually used the iPad during a surgery as a display. In the video embedded below, you can see a doctor (or assistant) zooming in and out of images shown on the iPad’s screen during the procedure.
It’s not really an elegant solution, as not only the device is wrapped in plastic, but it also requires two people to hold it in place and to show the screen to doctors. But we may be on our way to give one iPad to each doctor and nurse on the planet (the doctor at the end says it was actually useful during the procedure).
Here’s the video (in Japanese):
Via Japan Probe
Hands off to Apple for discover iPad. It’s very useful device.
iPad for surgery? wow, i thought iPad was more of a gimmick than a useful computer but this has changed my view now
You want to see more gimick? have you seen the ipad being used for magic?
wow steve jobs is really the greatest inventor of the world.now all the doctor out there will give thanks to apple.
It is simply being used as a wireless LCD display.
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yeah wireless LCD display … with precise touch capabilities
This is not a goot solution.
How to keep clean? Isn’t it causes trouble by that radio noise?
They have to use surgery-specialized equipments.
You can switch it to AIRPLANE MODE and turn off ALL the wireless devices.
I guess you don’t use an iPhone or you will know this already.
Most other medical devices have ways to be kept clean.
I’ve lived in Japan for more than 30 years. The Japanese doctors and dentists I’ve met almost exclusively use Macs. I asked them why and they told me that it is the quality of picture display. Colors. Graphics. They usually use Windows in the hospital, but Macs for their own research. My own doctor loves the iPad and uses it a lot to help patients understand what’s wrong with them, to understand surgical procedures and so on.
I could of swore during the video that the surgeon had the same tweezers (at 00:26 seconds on the video) thingy used in the board game “Operation”. I was waiting for a BUZZ and a guy with a red lightbulb nose to light up!
Funny that u can’t actually view this video on an iPad. Please post the native video in html5 or upload to YouTube….thx!
(written on an iPad)
Here’s the translation ive done…
This is in the Kobe University, Medical School. Surgery using an iPad was being undertaken.
“There are two pieces here” (guessing bones or something…)
Normally, CT scan images from far away monitors are used to confirm details on the surgery. However, by having an iPad right next to the operation they can conduct the surgery more smoothly.
“The big merit was that everyone is looking at the same screen to which can be used to confirm details of the surgery and adjust appropriately.”
What did they use for screens before? Surely the technology loving Japanese would have had something for this already? Saying that, this Ipad thing might be worth getting…
they are using it to see the CT scan of the patient while they do the surgery. It is NOT what they are doing in real time.
Also, it is surgery near the spine.