The latest wave of video game technology is doing much more than keeping teenagers entertained … it's preparing doctors for the operating room.
Surgical resident Jeff Henke is playing games … in hopes of becoming a better surgeon.
"This isn't exactly what I pictured when I thought of medical school."
Those control sticks on the Nintendo wii are actually probes … the same kind he'll use in the operating room.
"This does really help. It kind of coordinates your hand movements, gets you prepared to go into the operating room and perform laparoscopic surgery."
Doctors had to make a few adjustments to turn the wii accessories into surgical tools.
"We took the golf club out and actually put this — a laparoscopic probe — on it."
Using these cyber gloves to record and measure hand movements, bioinformatics expert Doctor Kanav Kahol made a discovery … the coordination used to play the games is similar to what's needed in laparoscopic or minimally invasive surgery.
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