Another first for Google Glass in Orthopedic surgery

ANOTHER GOOGLE GLASS ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY (Orthopedics This Week) Live streaming to the patient’s family? U.S.-based Indian orthopedic surgeon Selen G. Parekh, M.D., wearing Google Glass, performed a successful foot and ankle surgery on a patient in Jaipur, according to a report from Reuters. Parekh performed the surgery during a three day annual Indo-U.S. medical and technology conference. The conference chair, Ashish Sharma, M.D. said that Google Glass allows a surgeon to look at an X-ray or MRI without taking his eye off the patient. It also allows the doctor to communicate with the patient’s...


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