INTRO:
Shock Trauma Baltimore is one of the leading emergency treatment centers in the United States
The surgical team there handled some 8000 patients in need of critical care last year.
Now, these medical specialists have teamed up with computer scientists in a bid to bring cutting edge computer technology into the Operating Room...
Our reporter Kevin McAleese caught up with them at the University of Maryland to learn more...
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UPSOUND: [Dr Murthi]
VO#1 Wearing headgear more associated with the gaming world Trauma surgeon Sarah Murthi takes a look inside the chest of a volunteer patient...
Normally when using ultrasound the physician would look away to assess the image on a screen...
But using the HoloLens headgear developed by Microsoft, the subject's beating heart is being projected right before her eyes...
SOT: Dr Sarah Murthi, Surgeon at Maryland Shock Trauma Center
"It's almost like playing a video game backwards..."
VO#2 Dr Murthi , in collaboration with Maryland computer scientists wanted to harness Augmented Reality - computer generated images that overlay the real world - to try and revolutionize trauma care...
UPSOUND, [Dr Caron Hong]
VO#3 the innovation as overseen by Professor Varshney at Augmentarium, a state of the the art computer science lab at the University of Maryland....
SOT: [Amitabh VArshney, Prof. of Computer Science at the Uni of Maryland]
"When we are taking...positive about this"
VO#4 Still in the testing period Dr Murthi sees the tech benefiting medicine beyond the walls of the emergency room...
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VO#5 Scientists and surgeons expect to see this technology playing an active role in Trauma Surgery within just a few years...
The collaboration between Computer Scientists here at the University of Maryland and trauma specialists in Baltimore is ongoing, with the shared goal for better, safer and faster treatment in the future...