Three-dimensional ultrasound and image-directed surgery: implications for operating room personnel
Macedonia, C.
Seminars in Perioperative Nursing 6(2): 133-136
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 1056-8670 PMID: 9220912 Document Number: 478409
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.