Division of Pediatric Surgery, New York Medical College, Maria Fareri Children's Hospital of Westchester Medical Center, Skyline A14, 40 Sunshine Cottage Road, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA.
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Int J Surg. 2014;12(4):281-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2014.02.003. Epub 2014 Feb 15.
Personal portable information technology is advancing at a breathtaking speed. Google has recently introduced Glass, a device that is worn like conventional glasses, but that combines a computerized central processing unit, touchpad, display screen, high-definition camera, microphone, bone-conduction transducer, and wireless connectivity. We have obtained a Glass device through Google's Explorer program and have tested its applicability in our daily pediatric surgical practice and in relevant experimental settings.
Glass was worn daily for 4 consecutive weeks in a University Children's Hospital. A daily log was kept, and activities with a potential applicability were identified. Performance of Glass was evaluated for such activities. In-vitro experiments were conducted where further testing was indicated.
Wearing Glass throughout the day for the study interval was well tolerated. Colleagues, staff, families and patients overwhelmingly had a positive response to Glass. Useful applications for Glass were hands-free photo/videodocumentation, making hands-free telephone calls, looking up billing codes, and internet searches for unfamiliar medical terms or syndromes. Drawbacks encountered with the current equipment were low battery endurance, data protection issues, poor overall audio quality, as well as long transmission latency combined with interruptions and cut-offs during internet videoconferencing.
Glass has the some clear utility in the clinical setting. However, before it can be recommended universally for physicians and surgeons, substantial improvements to the hardware are required, issues of data protection must be solved, and specialized medical applications (apps) need to be developed.
个人便携式信息技术正以惊人的速度发展。谷歌最近推出了 Glass，这是一种像传统眼镜一样佩戴的设备，但它结合了计算机中央处理器、触摸板、显示屏、高清摄像头、麦克风、骨传导换能器和无线连接。我们通过谷歌的探索者计划获得了一台 Glass 设备，并在我们的日常小儿外科实践和相关实验环境中测试了它的适用性。
在一所大学儿童医院连续四周每天佩戴 Glass。记录日常日志，并确定具有潜在适用性的活动。评估 Glass 在这些活动中的性能。在需要进一步测试的情况下进行了体外实验。
在研究期间全天佩戴 Glass 被很好地耐受。同事、工作人员、家属和患者对 Glass 给予了压倒性的积极回应。Glass 的有用应用包括免提照片/视频记录、免提电话通话、查找计费代码以及为不熟悉的医学术语或综合征进行互联网搜索。当前设备遇到的缺点包括电池续航时间短、数据保护问题、整体音频质量差，以及在互联网视频会议期间的长传输延迟、中断和中断。
Glass 在临床环境中有一定的实用性。然而，在推荐普遍用于医生和外科医生之前，需要对硬件进行实质性改进，必须解决数据保护问题，并开发专门的医疗应用程序（apps）。
