3D Augmented reality eye surgery

Galilee Medical Center

In what is claimed to be a medical first, a team at the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, Israel, have performed eye socket surgery using 3D technology and augmented reality. An article from the Interesting Engineering website gives the information as a short text that is a good example of summarizing.

Link to article: https://interestingengineering.com/israel-carries-out-worlds-first-3d-ar-eye-socket-surgery

The article includes a short process description ("How the team performed the surgery") of only 114 words. Embedded in the article is the post from the medical center's Facebook page, which reduces the process description to 18 words and the information about this surgery from 329 words to 74 words. This is a good example for students to practice summarizing the main information from an article and for discussing which information they would choose.

In the article, there are many phrases useful for indicating results:

• resulting in
• which led to
• as well as
• as it resulted in
• was then
• and thus
• ultimately
• was then able to
• all in all
• in addition

Particularly useful for my students is the use and collocation of adverbs, since they tend not to use adverbs in their writing.

• seriously injured
• particularly accurate
• accurately made
• virtually and successfully placed over
• successfully performed
• optimally prepare

The topic of the article was useful not only for my biomedical engineering students, but also for those studying computer software and information technology.