Spine surgeons are increasingly using smart cameras. Such devices are successfully used in unmanned vehicles.
Doctors are guided by 3D images of the patient’s anatomy in reality and, due to this, they rarely allow, alas, inevitable damage. Sometimes such incidents involving nerve damage lead to permanent paralysis. Fortunately, they are not so common – in about one case out of 300 surgical interventions.
More recently, the operating surgeon could only see the surface of the spine. Then some doctors started using scanning technologies (like computed tomography). However, the informative method turned out to be not very suitable in this case: CT scans increased the procedure time, radiation forced surgeons to leave the operating room several times, and the result was not complete enough – the scans only gave a partial picture of the spine.
Innovative cameras provide images generated on a computer from different angles and even from the inside. The 7D Surgical System does not use CT scans. The principle of operation is based on combining previous scans of the spine with thousands of high-quality photographs taken during the operation, which gives the complete picture that the surgeon needs.
And yet it is better, if possible, not to bring the condition of the spine to the point of the need for surgery. Having felt the first symptoms of an impending problem, you must immediately contact a specialist and take all possible measures in a timely manner to eliminate it.
Osteopathic doctor Sergei Eleutheriadis.
Address: Aphroditis 11 Paleo Faliro.
Mob: 6979318267 viber.
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