How Formula 1 technology can help in the operating room

Posted on 01-06-2015 at 9:06 am by MauritsH – 18 Comments”

The Formula 1 and the operating room are two worlds that at first sight appear to have little to do with each other. There will, however, change in.

McLaren is planning to surgeons to assist in the conduct of operations. The magic word that you have in your mind is data. Hundreds of sensors to keep with what is happening during the drive, all under the bodywork of an F1 car. This data is during races and training sessions, sent to engineers many miles away in the factory so that they, in their turn, in no time, and make important decisions.

That’s all the work of McLaren Applied Technologies (abbreviated MAT). This branch of Mclaren is in collaboration with the university of Oxford to assist in creating tools that support in analyzing data and in making split second decisions.

How does that work? A sensor is on the elbow of a operating surgeon is placed. Via Bluetooth, this data the computer within, on the basis of which experts feedback can make to the surgeon. The technique is therefore mainly of interest for the training of medical personnel.

Incidentally, it is not only important that the real-time can be used to track what exactly is happening on the operating table. The software is also able to, just like in Formula 1, to predict what happens after a certain action is exactly going to happen.

The sensors will also be used on patients, so that can be precisely checked what exactly the problem is and whether the situation improves or deteriorates. As you can see, but: everyone is better of car racing, though it is just a little bit.