Dr. Redmond Burke, a surgeon at the Nicklaus Children's Hospital in Miami, was able to save an infant girl's life, all thanks to Google Cardboard and an application that allowed the good doctor to create a virtual model of the infant's heart, which helped him prepare for a difficult operation, according to ABC News.
The infant, Teegan Lexcen, was born with only one lung and half a heart. The Minnesota Hospital, where the baby girl and her twin sister were born, had to send the baby home and tell the baby's parents that there was not much to be done, considering how difficult the heart surgery would be on an infant child.
Refusing to give up, the baby's parents decided to take the child to the Nicklaus Children's Hospital, where Dr. Burke was chief of cardiovascular surgery.
"Teegan had the worst set of defects you can imagine... I've been doing surgery for 30 years. This is the first time I've seen a case like hers," Burke said in an interview, Tech Times reported.
With the help of Google Cardboard, Dr. Burke and his team of doctors were able to create a surgery plan, which they say would have not been envisioned properly if not for the technology.
It has been four weeks and a few days since the surgery, and baby Teegan's ventilator has finally been taken off, allowing the baby to breathe on her own. Doctors confirm that the infant is on the road to recovery.
"It was mind-blowing," said Cassidy Lexcen, Teegan's mother. "To see this little cardboard box and a phone, and to think this is what saved our daughter's life," according to CNN.
