Google Cardboard News Today: Baby Saved Via New Conceptualized Surgery!
Virtual reality isn't all about gaming. According to today's news, Google's Cardboard VR was used by a doctor to help save a dying baby who was beyond rescue when other doctors gave up all their hopes.
It was reported that doctors at Nicklaus Children's hospital, Miami used a set of Google Cardboard Glasses, worth $20, to map out the surgery for the baby, Cited FoxNews.
Minnesota Baby Teegan Lexcen was born with a birth defect was expected to recover from a surgery when doctors informed her family that her situation was hopeless.
Earlier, Teegen's parents were informed that their baby would die and there was nothing they could do to save her and sent them home. But two weeks later, the baby was still alive, so the parents looked for a second opinion regarding this.
Eventually, Chad's sister had stumbled upon an article "The 20 Most Innovative Pediatric Surgeons Alive Today" and spotted Dr. Redmond Burke, the Chief Of cardiovascular surgery, Nicklaus Children's Hospital, Miami- The No.3 surgeon on the list.
Immediately, they contacted the hospital. While they hadn't encountered a condition like this earlier, they brainstormed ways to help the baby. Burke then coordinated with Dr. Juan Carlos Muniz, a Paediatric cardiologist who specialized in imaging, to make a 3-D model of the baby's heart.
The team's 3-D printed being out of service, Muniz considered a different option- an awe-inspiring Virtual reality with Dr. David Ezon a paediatric cardiologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical center. He took the Google Cardboard to pre-plan the baby's heart surgery via Virtual reality.
The technology was precise to the core, better than 3-D images he had created on his computer previously, thus adding to the news of today's success.
With the new device, the baby's heart could be modelled to be viewed at different angles and perceive its structure from inside the organ. During the surgery performed on December 10, the doctors found the device more useful than the usual 3-D printing.
They were able to judge the condition and locate parts of the body and conceptualize a new surgery that overcame the challenges of the baby's heart that had only one ventricle instead of two. Four weeks after the surgery, Baby Teegen was breathing on her own and doctors predicted a full recovery within two weeks.
This news incident has proved that Google Cardboard is more useful today than the usual 3-D printing, in terms of conceptualizing a new surgery to help save a baby.
