Japanese Surgeon Uses an iPad in Operation
Though there are tons of tablets being announced at Computex this week, the iPad is the one attracting all of the attention outside the show. With more than two million units sold, the device is showing up in some pretty strange places.
The iPad was just launched in Japan last week but one surgeon is already making use of the device in his operating room. Though it's unclear exactly how he's using the iPad, the surgeons in the video (seen here on Wired UK) pinch, zoom and drag their fingers across the screen, examining what appears to be the patient's insides or reference photos.
Watching how new gadgets and technologies affect medicine is interesting and we're eager to see if some of the cheaper, more open tablets scheduled to hit the market will enter hospitals on a more widespread scale. Digital hospital charts would be just one of the possibilites.
Wired points out that another Japanese doctor x-rayed his iPad back in April. Just because you're a doctor, doesn't mean you don't like x-raying random crap for fun.
Also, if you have any questions about your iPad, be sure to check out Computing.Net's iPad/iPhone/iPod forum!
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How is this news? This just in: a cat was able to use the iPad as a toy! And look, a dog is scared of the iPad! oh wait, you did that already
. Enough with these useless iPad "news" please.
Erm, since the app he's using is prolly unofficial, that means the iPad is likely jailbroken...
Apple lawsuit in 3... 2... 1...
Intra-murphasic Dichrosotiospaliosis?
There's an app for that.
This didn't come to mind before Apple made a tablet?
there's an e-book of surgery for dummies?
Well that's annoying. I have to pay a lot of money to get a damn X-Ray, but they can X-Ray a friggin' iPad for fun?
wow, ANOTHER "someone uses an Ipad to do something" thread.
If you guys could get paid per piece by the "man spotted using Iphone to make a call" type reports, you wouldn't need advertising on the site. and afford a 3 week vacation in hawaii.
Story originated on Wired, which has become one of the most ridiculously apple biased tech-websites over the last few years.
Story originated on Wired, which has become one of the most ridiculously apple biased tech-websites over the last few years.
wow, more than toms?
How is this news? This just in: a cat was able to use the iPad as a toy! And look, a dog is scared of the iPad! oh wait, you did that already . Enough with these useless iPad "news" please.
It is "news" about the use of technology in the real-world. But this is useless and it's like advertising for Apple.
Toms gets flamed hard for any apple-loving blogs. They have to listen to audience, otherwise they will end up preaching to Jobs' choir.
Hope it doesn't get, an, ummm, virus.
Folks.... Its ok, The doc is using it as a form of wireless LCD monitor.. its just too bad other companies are so late on the bandwagon of making a wireless LCD monitor with control inputs.
Slap a shiny apple logo and bam!, instant creativity is brought to all.
OK fine. I admit it. I used and iPad to wipe my butt. There the secret is out now. There is an app for that!
I just couldn't hide it any longer.
This just in: Doctors use technology to make their jobs easier.
wow, more than toms?
Wow, do you seriously think Tom's is pro-Apple? There is one Apple article on the front page of Tom's Hardware. One. As in less than two but greater than zero. One.
This article isn't any more tech related than the stupid article about George Bush joining facebook. I didn't care that George Bush joined facebook so I didn't read that article. I was interested to see why an iPad was used in an operating room so I clicked the link. I guess the difference between me and the set of cellar dwelling Apple trolls is I have the ability to control myself.
"I DON'T CARE ABOUT GEORGE BUSH JOINING FACEBOOK. TOM'S IS GEORGE BUSH BIASED." Ridiculous. I wish Tom's would just hand out 7 day bans to you idiots without warning.
In order to perform this operation, let's look at this video of it being done by a peer of mine...pause...wait, let me upload it...pause...oh crap, it's a flash video...guess this guy's dead meat!
May be it's just "iPed" from china, which uses Android OS?
Apple haters make me lol. Dont like it dont click on the link to read about it then bash it. Do something more productive like jump in the lake or off a cliff! We are all now dumber for having read your apple hating rant, thanks!
Oh great, another one of these threads... TomsHardware needs to fire/hire some people.
Apple sell Ipad by million, wait... that not even avil. on world wide basis.. those who make fun and joke abt Ipad missing the main point " Ipad sell ... whatever u may say or think..
Yeah but can the iPad get the insurance company to approve the damned surgery in the first place? What there's not an app for that?
So... what happened to banning whiners who complained about news stories in the comments? Pathetic.
How is this news?
Actually I find this more interesting then the last hundred "news" about the iPad. I find it interesting to see gadgets that most of us buy just for fun being used to maybe save lives.
Erm, since the app he's using is prolly unofficial, that means the iPad is likely jailbroken...Apple lawsuit in 3... 2... 1...
I don't think so. They are just uploading pictures on the pad so they can look at them really easy while operating, not having to move his head up to a monitor.
It's a really unnatural position bent over the patient and having to look up to a screen.
need to do surgery but don't have the know how? there is an app for that!
Apple haters make me lol. Dont like it dont click on the link to read about it then bash it. Do something more productive like jump in the lake or off a cliff! We are all now dumber for having read your apple hating rant, thanks!
Tom's used to be a respected tech website, but it can't hope to keep up that reputation if random iPad news like 'Cat likes iPad' keeps being posted. And it's up to Tom's users to remind them of that.
Erm, since the app he's using is prolly unofficial, that means the iPad is likely jailbroken...Apple lawsuit in 3... 2... 1...
Did you see the one about the dog playing Air Hockey on the iPad?
one more thing about the ipad and im going to puke.
Why is it so amazing that an iPad did this?
If Dell,Hp,Intel etc had a product that did something so amazing it wouldn't be news now would it?
Nothing amazing about that. Monitors have been used in hospitals and OR's since their invention. The title should have been "Surgeon uses an ipad as a monitor in OR" or something similar.
Just because it happened to be an ipad doesnt mean anything amazing.
For reference, monitors used in hospitals are professional-grade, meaning accurate color reproduction at the expense of response time. Akin to what pro photographers use in studios.
Probably the monitor was not working and they had to resort to some improv., cause the screen quality on an ipad does not even come close to what is required in a hospital.