Anticipating Augmented Reality as the New Medical Practitioner

The healthcare and medical landscape has compelled the need of Augmented Reality

The need of augmented reality was realized back in the year 1895 when W.C. Rontgen had discovered X-ray for imaging of the patients. With the developed introduction of MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography) and USG( Ultrasound SonoGraphy ), augmented reality has only seen the face of improvement since then and its importance amongst medical practitioners can never be undermined.

Although, gaining a stable settlement in the health care sector and hospitals that barely run without AR technology, the rising need of it in surgical department is not given the hype it deserves.

The saviors of the nation need saviors too

It is an undeniable fact that doctors are the saviors of the nation. Amidst the troubled times that allowed doctors no respite, short of high-technology or software to assist their operations caused unpredictability and panic amongst the medical practitioners. For this reason alone, the medical practitioners are heavily realizing the incorporation of augmented reality in the medical infrastructure.

The troubled times caused by the pandemic had an adverse toll on hospitals where the patients outnumbered the doctors and medical facilities. The virus causing incomprehensible complications in patients put the doctors in a soup as they could not provide quality treatment to each patient.

Doctors who are the saviors of the nation are looking up to AR technology and AR applications for easing out pressures mounting in the hospitals. In order to have a fair grasp of the complications caused by the virus, medical imaging is of utmost importance. Doctors are demanding the need of a medical infrastructure that comes with the facilities of augmented reality and virtual reality on a whole in order to yield accurate results of diagnoses carried out on patients.

Additionally, augmented reality technology has also now found its way into surgical planning for improved treatment that can be carried out without too much human contact. VA's National Center for collaborative health care encourages the integration of 5G technology coupled with surgical augmented reality clinical visualization software also known as Surgical AR, promising the health care delivery.

What do augmented reality applications aim at in surgery?

The augmented reality integration in the medical sectors aims at refining and refurbishing the real-time data and data visualization. Focusing on surgical planning and operations, AI offers more advancements than the traditional methods.

The improvements made in real-time data acquisition and data visualization can help the surgeons to gain an edge over the understanding of the problems and complications, thereby devising effective solutions for them. Besides, the swiftness that an AR and artificial intelligence driven system will provide will alter the ways in which one perceives the reality as augmented reality reflects the unseen.

Having said that AR technology is capable of altering the reality, the altered reality can hold up challenges for scientists and doctors to learn the unknown and stray into dark corridors of medicine and body anatomies, setting it off on the path of unhinged improvement.

Bottomline

Surgical AR, the notion that was conceived by Osamah Choudhury and Christopher Morley, practitioners at Medivis, have made a ground breaking discovery by mingling augmented reality with surgical operations, alleviate the pressure on doctors and heightening their performances in terms of quality.