Glasses that help doctors live-stream surgeries, check patient's parameters

MUMBAI: For about a month now, laparoscopic gynaecologist Dr Rakesh Sinha has been trying out a new technique in the operation theatre in his Khar hospital. Before making the first incision, he gently says, "Go glass". The unobtrusive Google Glass he wears over his spectacles then starts recording the surgery, capturing the surgeon's view in hi-definition.

Welcome to the Google Glass-enabled operation theatre. While Chennai surgeon J S Rajkumar was the first to live-stream a surgery using Google Glass from Lifeline Hospitals in September 2013, the Mumbai chapter is developing medical "apps" for the glass along with an American company.

"This glass is like science fiction," said Dr Sinha. "I can seamlessly share and learn while operating," said Dr Sinha. Doctors using the glassware—as the wearable technology is called in the tech circles—can immediately beam the surgery to the world or surf the internet to learn about complications even while operating.

Last week, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in New York started using the glassware in its emergency ward. Closer home, Public Health Foundation of India is waiting to launch its Swasthya Slate in Jammu & Kashmir government's mother and child programme. "The Slate is a computer tablet that will help ASHA (accredited social health activist) conduct and transmit results of 30-odd diagnostic tests, including an ECG, blood pressure or malaria," said Dr Srinath Reddy of PHFI. Dr Sinha and his doctor son, Rushindra, have been working on Google Glass applications that will help doctors read a patient's file or even talk to an expert remotely for advice. "Why should a doctor need to read a patient's ultrasound record from a file kept near the operating table when he or she can just view it on the glassware?" they asked. They have so far used their Google Glasses in eight surgeries.

Their American collobarator, Chris Vukin from Ever Med, told TOI in an email reply: Glassware can make your doctor ten times more efficient. "It gives patients hands-free tools for dealing with everyday tasks such as medication reminders," he said.

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