How Cardboard Survived a Heart Defective Patient?

Google Cardboard has proven to be quite a useful application of it.

4-month-old Teegan Lexcen was born in Minnesota with a heart defect, no left lung and the chance to survive Christmas this year is extremely low. But now, she is recovering from open heart surgery at Nicklaus Hospital in Miami, Florida. A group of doctors bravely used smartphones and Google Cardboard VR to "look" inside the patient's chest and save her life.

Most VR applications in the health sector focus on brain exploration rather abstract and complex.

Having to deal with such a delicate surgery will cause a lot of pain even when the patient is an adult, with Teegan's condition further complicated by her fragile skeleton. For successful caesarean surgery requires a deep understanding of the cardiac structure of the patient, 2D MRI can only reveal one aspect.

Immediately after, Dr. Juan-Carlos Muniz, the head of the hospital's MRI division, transformed 2D images into 3D, loaded them into an iPhone and used Google Cardboard for Redmond Burke cardiologist. a comprehensive view of Teegan baby heart. Burke shares with the UploadVR site that this is like "standing in the operating room" two weeks before surgery.

When he learned about Teegan's heart, Dr. Burke found out where to place his first incision: in the middle of her chest. Seven hours later, Teegan was given a new life and VR has now proven to be a useful application. Most VR applications in the health sector focus on brain exploration rather abstract and complex. While these need high-end VR systems such as the Oculus Rift, the incident over the past few weeks has proven that there is no need for expensive equipment to save lives - just be ready to look at everything in another way.