Proximie: Lebanon’s Modern Medical Miracle
04-02-2018 | 20:35
In 2016, a modern medical miracle took place. In Gaza, a young man who had been badly hurt in a bomb blast underwent reconstructive surgery on his hand. What was remarkable about this procedure was that the surgeon at the Al Awda hospital who performed it, Dr. Hafez Abu Khousa, was guided by Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sitta, Head of Plastic Surgery at the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC).Dr. Abu-Sitta was not present in the operating room in Gaza to oversee the procedure. In fact, throughout the operation, he was over 300 miles away in his office in Beirut, conducting proceedings on an iPad. That operation was the first example of remote surgery carried out using the Proximie app - an Augmented Reality (AR) telemedical tool which allows surgeons to...
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