German doctors perform surgery with iPad

A team of German doctors have performed liver surgery with the aid of a tablet computer in what has been described as one of the first surgeries of its kind. Professor Karl Oldhafer, chief physician of general and visceral surgery at Asklepios Hospital Hamburg-Barmbek, and his colleagues removed two tumours from a patient’s liver using an iPad in a three-hour-long surgery that took place last week, Reuters reported. “I couldn’t imagine how an iPad would be helpful during an operation to remove two tumors from a liver,” photographer Fabian Bimmer, who filmed the surgery, blogged. The unique methodology, a first