Latest Technology & New Techniques in Surgery

Digital technology will make description of a surgeon of yesteryear – “Eyes of a Hawk and the Heart of a Lion” obsolete. Familiarity with a mouse will be the order of the day. “Point and Click”, “Single Click, Double Click”, “Left Button, Middle Button and Right Button”, “Drag and Drop” these will be the jargon of the surgeon in the operation theatre.

The last few years have witnessed a tremendous growth in interactive image guided brain surgery – a detailed road map at last. The added advantage is, that this map is updated in real time. The presence of landslides and road blocks ahead are broadcast as in a citizens band radio. Reversing one’s path will almost never take place. How is this done?

Today with real time interactive image guided surgical tool like “The Viewing Wand” it is possible to achieve a navigation as precise as that in the Voyager mission. After all the intricacies and the consequences are none the less initial MRI or CT scanning is done with markers placed on the patients scalp which serve as reference points.