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Ramya Kannan
Ramya Kannan
Devices like iPod Touch help doctors in surgeries
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CHENNAI: Necessity may be the mother of invention, but it is creativity that brought information technology into medicine. While some advances such as telemedicine, and electronic medical records are now used widely, it is still the gadget-friendly specialists who have slowly brought these devices by the hand into medicine, realising the enormous advantage they have for the patient.
Some weeks ago, surgeons in Chennai and Mumbai used what you and I use to listen to music, and maybe browse the web, to conduct high-precision hip and knee replacements. In Chennai, Vijay C. Bose, an orthopaedic surgeon, who did the hip and knee replacements using the iPod Touch, explained that a specialised software developed by the company that provides the prosthesis had enabled the iPod to perform like a computer navigating for the surgeon. Once the co-ordinates are fed into the software, it zeroes in on a three dimensional location of the joint to be replaced, and indicates the point of fitting in the prosthesis.
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