Journal: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Article Title: A review of wearable technology in medicine

doi: 10.1177/0141076816663560

Figure Lengend Snippet: An overview of the available head-mounted display devices and their utilisation.

Article Snippet: 36 g), easy to wear, wireless connection, minimal interference with surgery Costs, significant ‘lagging' effect, poor mobility of CMOS camera, requires wireless data transport Shao et al. 4 (Richard Wolf GmbH, Germany) Trans-anal endoscopic microsurgery Comfortable with adequate peripheral view, surgeon remains upright in posture and relaxed Poor image quality van Koesveld et al. 5 Nomad ND2000TM (Microvision, USA) Vital signs presented on display for general anaesthesia Quicker response time when difficulty in seeing normal monitor Similar to normal monitor when no difficulty in seeing Liu et al. 6 HMZ-T2 (Sony Corporation, Japan) TURP Cheaper than conventional surgery, more commercially available, comfortable to wear Endoscope was only of 10 mm diameter limiting view Yoshida et al. 12 Medical education HMM-3000MT (Sony Corporation, Japan) Vision-based index finger tracking Maintain sterility during teaching, easy to use, comfortable to wear, low cost and compact size Lag between endoscopic image and pointer device Yoshida et al. 11 Imaging HMZ-T2 & Wrap1200 (Sony Corporation, Japan) Sonography for patient education Comfortable, improved understanding of patient disease, high quality images Lag time, battery issues Inoue et al. 7 Google GLASS (Google Inc. USA) Ultrasound-guided central venous access Comfortable Restricted size of image, required pan and zoom tool Wu et al. 8 Other Google GLASS (Google Inc. USA) Evaluation in forensic medicine Easy to use and wear Poor quality images Albrecht et al. 9 eMagin Z800 3D Visor Driving simulator following SC injury, patient rehabilitation Improved behind the wheel performance More ‘off road’ collisions Carlozzi et al. 13 Primesense 1080/Xtion (ASUS, Taiwan) Navigation aid for partially sighted patients Easy to use and understand, provides depth and distance No studies conducted Hicks et al. 14 Open in a separate window HMD, head-mounted displays; TURP, transurethral resection of the prostate.

Techniques: Sterility, Imaging, Battery