Japanese Surgeon Uses an iPad in Operation

[nsmetana]

Oh great, another one of these threads... TomsHardware needs to fire/hire some people.

 

[firebld]

Apple sell Ipad by million, wait... that not even avil. on world wide basis.. those who make fun and joke abt Ipad missing the main point " Ipad sell ... whatever u may say or think..

 

[Guest]

Yeah but can the iPad get the insurance company to approve the damned surgery in the first place? What there's not an app for that?

 

[Maxor127]

So... what happened to banning whiners who complained about news stories in the comments? Pathetic.

 

[bv90andy]

[citation][nom]Sykar[/nom]How is this news?[/citation]

Actually I find this more interesting then the last hundred "news" about the iPad. I find it interesting to see gadgets that most of us buy just for fun being used to maybe save lives.

[citation][nom]amabhy[/nom]Erm, since the app he's using is prolly unofficial, that means the iPad is likely jailbroken...Apple lawsuit in 3... 2... 1...[/citation]

I don't think so. They are just uploading pictures on the pad so they can look at them really easy while operating, not having to move his head up to a monitor.

It's a really unnatural position bent over the patient and having to look up to a screen.

 

[zachary k]

need to do surgery but don't have the know how? there is an app for that!

 

[Silmarunya]

[citation][nom]soldier37[/nom]Apple haters make me lol. Dont like it dont click on the link to read about it then bash it. Do something more productive like jump in the lake or off a cliff! We are all now dumber for having read your apple hating rant, thanks![/citation]

Tom's used to be a respected tech website, but it can't hope to keep up that reputation if random iPad news like 'Cat likes iPad' keeps being posted. And it's up to Tom's users to remind them of that.

 

[descendency]

[citation][nom]amabhy[/nom]Erm, since the app he's using is prolly unofficial, that means the iPad is likely jailbroken...Apple lawsuit in 3... 2... 1...[/citation]
Did you see the one about the dog playing Air Hockey on the iPad?

 

[cybot_x1024]

one more thing about the ipad and im going to puke.

 

[silver565]

Why is it so amazing that an iPad did this?

If Dell,Hp,Intel etc had a product that did something so amazing it wouldn't be news now would it?

 

[house70]

Nothing amazing about that. Monitors have been used in hospitals and OR's since their invention. The title should have been "Surgeon uses an ipad as a monitor in OR" or something similar.
Just because it happened to be an ipad doesnt mean anything amazing.
For reference, monitors used in hospitals are professional-grade, meaning accurate color reproduction at the expense of response time. Akin to what pro photographers use in studios.
Probably the monitor was not working and they had to resort to some improv., cause the screen quality on an ipad does not even come close to what is required in a hospital.

 

[ashkaji]

Im suprised they dont have a bigger screen. Honestly doctors make good bank. Why are they using an Ipad instead of say, a larger touchscreen LCD. Maybe price?

 

[flaminggerbil]

News just in, I used an iPad to whipe my arse.

There's an app for that.

 

[Usersname]

It's an enabling PC being used in a way that wasn't previously catered for by existing devices. That's not to say other devices couldn't be used, but that they weren't. The iPad is good for this type of work as it allows surgeons rapid access to data during complex surgical procedures.

Remember to say to yourselves "New paradigm". The future has arrived...will get cheaper...will get faster... will get added functionality (if and when needed).

 

[omnimodis78]

There's a file line between effective and creative product exposure and what we're seeing with the iPad. This tablet is not revolutionary, like say the iPod was at first, and not everybody plans to get it. Stop with building this fake momentum for a tablet. You're actually devalueing it by making it cheap and cheesy with all the nonsense you're reporting about it.

 

[dwave]

THIS JUST IN: Tomshardware switches servers to iPads!! Must have iTunes to access the website!

 

[ksampanna]

I think the guy on the table was Jobbs, & he was probably telling the surgeon the iPad has no Flash support. The surgeon refused to believe, & he's double checking just to be sure.

 

[LLJones]

By the title, I was kind of thinking that they had actually used it in the operation, as in grafted it to the guys chest or something. That would be cool.

 

[Abrahm]

Whats funny is if they used a regular laptop, they wouldn't have had to have someone holding it up for the other doctor. LOL.

 

[KingArcher]

I use my belt to hold my pants up. Oh wait its an iBelt! It's news, we must broadcast this!!