Mixed Reality Helps Hospital Innovate Surgical Planning
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Nicklaus Children’s Hospital is using the latest immersive technology to advance surgical care planning, and patient education. The hospital’s Cardiovascular Surgery Advanced Projects Laboratory (CSAPL) is now using emerging mixed reality technology to support planning of complex congenital heart procedures and help patient families visualize how the surgical team will conduct repairs. The technology is also being used to support clinical classroom learning in association with medical education partners.
The work is under the leadership of Dr. Robert L. Hannan, who heads the CSAP lab; Dr. Redmond P. Burke, Director of the Division of Cardiovascular Surgery; and Dr. David Seo, Chief Information Officer at Nicklaus Children’s.
Collaborating in the initiative is ApoQlar, maker of VSI Holomedicine, which displays patient MRI, CT, angio CT, PET and SPECT-CT and other medical scanned images as 3D holograms in real space using the Microsoft HoloLens2 mixed-reality glasses. A second collaborator is Stratasys, maker of the J750 Digital Anatomy Printer, which has the capability to print 3D replicas of patient hearts and other anatomy with similar biomechanical properties including soft-tissues, cartilage, muscle and bone structures.
Nicklaus is among the first to utilize the ApoQlar VSI Holomedicine solution in North America and maintains a leadership position in innovating use of emerging medical technologies such as 3D printing.
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“This suite of tools is a technological dream team for planning complex surgeries,” said Dr. Burke. “We can view and explore the patient’s specific anatomy in real-time through the combined use of Microsoft Hololens 2 and ApoQlar VSI Holomedicine platform, and quite literally hold an exact replica of a patient’s heart in our hands with the new 3D printing technology. Some of the babies for whom we provide care have hearts the size of grapes, so the opportunity to truly visualize the specific anatomy is invaluable. In addition, we can actually cut and sew the printed hearts as part of our presurgical preparation, which is a tremendous advancement,” he said.
