Three-dimensional ultrasound and image-directed surgery: implications for operating room personnel.
The proliferation of new imaging technologies is having a profound impact on all surgical specialties. New means of surgical visualization are allowing more surgeries to be performed less invasively. Three-dimensional ultrasound is a technology that has potential as a diagnostic tool, as a presurgical planning simulator, and as an adjunct to image-directed surgery. This article describes how three-dimensional ultrasound is being used by the United States Department of Defense and how it may change the role of the perioperative nurse in the near future.
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20007, USA.
D006801:Humans; D008887:Military Medicine; D009871:Operating Room Nursing; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000379:methods*; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods*; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000379:methods*