Help Lightning

Remote expertise through the power of merged reality

Access to this ground-breaking technology is included at no cost with an InterSurgeon clinician membership. Help Lightning allows experienced surgeons to guide and interactively assist others during operations in real-time, anywhere in the world.

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What are the benefits of Help Lightning for surgeons?

In light of the pandemic, and for the foreseeable future, the conventional ways of establishing collaborative partnerships through physical visits are not going to be possible. However, because Help Lightning allows surgeons to collaborate remotely, partnerships can still develop – and more easily than ever before. Help Lightning can be used as a tool for education, mentorship and instruction – as well as for intraoperative case management. It allows both surgical planning and real-time intraoperative advice.

How does it work?

Watch this video to learn how Help Lightning works. This shows use cases in other industries – it’s every bit as useful with surgical applications and can also be used hands-free. All you need to use Help Lightning is your smartphone and an internet connection, though it can also be used with tablets, desktop computers and smart surgical glasses.

Download a beginner’s guide to Help Lightning here: Help Lightning Basic Training

Virtual help in real-time

Help Lightning uses Merged Reality to blend two real-time video streams – e.g. that of a remote surgical expert and another surgeon that needs help – into a collaborative environment. This Merged Reality allows the expert to virtually reach out and direct real surgical procedures or training.

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Use your existing devices

Help Lightning runs on your existing mobile devices (iOS, Android) or a web-browser on laptop and desktop computers.

Surgeons can now provide remote assistance as though they’re working side-by-side. They can telestrate, freeze images, use hand gestures, and even add real objects into the merged reality environment.

Help Lightning Software

Be there instantly

Help Lightning is easy, fast and intuitive.

Once you’re in a merged reality call with a colleague or customer, simply tap the mode to change how you interact. Choose whether you’re giving or receiving help, and start collaborating in seconds. Help Lightning’s unique Merged Reality can add missing visual cues, gestures, and non-verbal communication methods to any session.

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Using Help Lightning with smart surgical glasses

Take Help Lightning to the next level by pairing it with smart glasses. This innovation allows the wearer to benefit from the assistance of AI or a third-party while performing surgery. When used in conjunction with Help Lightning, smart glasses mean that another surgeon can see exactly what you are seeing and what you’re doing – and also have their hands superimposed over your field of view.

There are a number of models available from different manufacturers including VUZIX, Zebra, and RealWear.

The Advantage of Remote Expertise

Studies show that adding gestures and nonverbal clues substantially improves the speed of understanding. Furthermore, nonverbal cues are 430% more effective than verbal cues and nonverbal cues make Help Lightning’s combination of verbal and nonverbal communication up to 10 times more effective.

Sources: Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, British Journal of Clinical Psychology

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Travis Reece-Nguyen, MD/MPH

Travis Reece-Nguyen, MD/MPH

Anaesthetist

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford, United States of America

User

Location information

Hospital address

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital 300 N Pasteur Dr # H3647 Stanford CA 94305 United States of America

Hospital type

University-affiliated

Hospital description

First-Level Hospital

Hospital website

http://med.stanford.edu/anesthesia.html

This is a teaching hospital

Description

Travis joined the Stanford faculty as a Pediatric anesthesiologist in 2019 after completing his anesthesia residency at University of Washington and his Pediatric Anesthesiology fellowship at Stanford. His passion for Global Health started during his 2 year service as a Peace Corps volunteer in The Gambia, West Africa where he taught science, health, and midwifery. Upon his return to the States, he obtained his MD and Masters of Public Health with a focus on global health from University of Texas. Throughout his medical training, he has had the opportunity to work on several continents focusing primarily on sustainable anesthesia education and capacity building. During his last year of residency, Travis received the SEA-HVO grant to teach anesthesia in Vietnam which helped solidify his passion for global education. Travis’ global health interests include sustainable anesthesia education, capacity-building, barriers to healthcare, global emergency response, and pediatric anesthesia safety in low and middle-income countries.

Member information

Name

Travis Reece-Nguyen

Member type

Individual independent practitioner

Specialty

Anaesthetist

Subspecialties

  • Specialist physician anaesthesia provider (specialist PAP)
  • Paediatric

Languages spoken

  • English

Professional affiliations / memberships

  • Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA)
  • American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section on Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
  • Society for Education in Anesthesia
  • American Society of Anesthesiologists

Current and past partnerships

Has current partners or past partnership experience in these countries

  • Rwanda
  • United Republic of Tanzania
  • Ethiopia
  • Viet Nam
  • Nicaragua
  • Costa Rica
  • Zimbabwe

Bilateral educational exchange partnerships with many teaching hospitals around the world. ongoing research projects in Regional anesthesia in Ethiopia/Tanzania. Now focusing on the new Stanford Global Anesthesia and Critical Care Learning Resource Center with over 600 anesthesia providers registered from over 40 countries.

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