With an initiative to address the shortage of surgeons and specialists in India, two labs have collaborated and launched an ‘open orthopaedic surgery simulator’ based on Artificial Intelligence. The simulator, which would be initiated by various leading hospitals in Delhi and NCR region, will mimic like a patient and used for training of orthopaedic and neurosurgeons. Dr Harsha Vardhan, founder and managing director of one of those labs stated that “The simulator will be used in spine surgeries, knee surgeries, on basic healing, trauma and other kinds of surgeries.
The move will definitely help save millions of lives that are unfortunately lost due to lack of trained pool of doctors in specific domain”. The simulator is already in use in the US and Canada. In India, labs are planning to initially introduce the technology in orthopaedics, pathology, general surgery, gastro and…
