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Special Outpatient Surgery Edition - Megatrends - January 2018

Outpatient Surgery Magazine, providing current information on Surgical Services, Surgical Facility Administration, Outpatient Surgery News and Trends, OR Excellence and more.

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S urgeons who work with virtual reality (VR) and aug- mented reality (AR) don headsets that let them explore anatomy that's not really there and reference clinical data that's projected into their field of view. Before dis- missing those far-out concepts as farfetched, know that futurist surgeons are already figuring out ways to use VR and AR to improve pre-op planning, bring intraoperative imaging to the sterile field and enhance communication among surgical team members. To appreciate how the technologies might someday be used in your ORs, you must first understand how they work. 4 6 • O U T PA T I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E • J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 8 What Will the Future of Surgery Look Like? Rafael Grossmann, MD | Bangor, Maine Virtual and augmented reality promises to transform how surgery is planned, performed and promoted. Indiana University Health FIELD OF VIEW Augmented reality lets surgeons see patient records and clinical data while also projecting and recording their vantage point to removed audiences.

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