Perpetual Help Hospital uses Google Glass and Oculus Rift to relay an arthroscopy

The University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Droiders participate in the live broadcast of an operation performed at the Perpetuo Socorro Hospital using Google Glass and Oculus Rift virtual reality devices.

Friday 11 In July, a surgical operation was performed at the Perpetuo Socorro Hospital in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and was broadcast with the device Google Glass combined with virtual reality glasses, Oculus Rift Facebook. The University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria collaborated in this initiative (ULPGC) and Droiders, Application developer.

The intervention consisted of a knee arthroscopy performed by Dr. Gerardo Garcés, Traumatology specialist at Perpetuo Socorro Hospital, What, carrying Google Glass, gave a master class while performing the operation. Through a streaming system it was broadcast live in the auditorium of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the ULPGC, while it could be followed from anywhere on the planet through its eyes.

The patient was wearing the Oculus Rift virtual reality glasses that allowed her to isolate herself from the hospital environment and the stress caused by a surgical intervention from the relaxing images and sounds that transported her to a virtual world..

Dr. Garcés considers Google Glass "a good working tool for teaching and exchanging opinions on a case with other geographically distant doctors.. Una experiencia que supondrá un gran avance para la integración del sistema de gestión SAP del hospital con este dispositivo tecnológico ya que permitirá consultar sobre la marcha en quirófano, with the importance that saving time has in these circumstances, in addition to allowing the patient to be consulted at any time".

Proven the effectiveness of Google Glass in the field of medicine in other prestigious broadcasts, A new field of action opens up in which health and technology converge.

Operations with Google Glass offer the possibility that thousands of people can see at the same moment the intervention that a surgeon is performing in another part of the world.

They facilitate learning in the classrooms of the Faculties of Medicine, the incorporation of new surgical techniques that the specialist can teach his colleagues and the contact between doctors during the intervention since Google Glass offers the doctor the possibility of calling another doctor if he has any questions during the operation.

Oculus Rift can also be used in the treatment of phobias and fears. It has already been proven that the use of virtual reality can be very useful in the treatment of this type of pathologies.