This article talks about how some doctors at Sunnybrook Hospital are using the Xbox 360 Kinect to save time and prevent contamination in the operating room. Basically, a team at Sunnybrook Hospital has started using the Xbox 360 Kinect, a hands-free gaming console equipped with a motion sensor, to virtually manipulate hey medical images during surgery. The doctors use hand gestures to zoom in and out of the images that they need to see during surgeries without leaving the operating table. Surgeons typically have to leave the sterile field around the patient when they want to pull up images such as MRI or CT scans on a nearby computer. They then have to go through a meticulous cleanup before returning to the area to make sure they don't bring in any bacteria that could harm the patient. This whole process can waste a lot of time. Because Kinect is hands-free, surgeons can stay in the sterile area by the patient and control what happens on the Kinect and bring up images that they need to see to continue with the surgery that they are performing.The fact that the Xbox 360 Kinect, a gaming console, is innovating the way surgeries are done is truly amazing. I don't own a Kinect, but I do have an Xbox 360 and I have tried the Kinect. Basically it's a camera that sees in 3-D and it scans your body movements and you control with hand and body gestures. In the article it mentions that the doctors at Sunnybrook Hospital that have used the Kinect during surgeries say that is made everything a lot easier and faster. So far the Kinect has only been used at Sunnybrook but I'm sure that if it continues to work successfully and save time during surgeries that Kinect will soon be seen in Hospitals all over Ontario and in time all across North America.
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