Telemedicine link with South Pole allows remote knee surgery.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-17 July 2002-US NSF: Telemedicine link with South Pole allows remote knee surgery (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07172002 In a groundbreaking telemedicine development, doctors in Massachusetts earlier this month helped a physician at Amundsen Scott South Pole Station to surgically repair the damaged knee of a meteorologist spending the winter in Antarctica.

Using a "telemedicine" connection operated by Raytheon Polar Services Co. (RPSC) of Centennial, Colo., orthopedic surgeon Bertram Zarins and anesthesiologist Vicki Modest, both of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, helped South Pole physician Dr. Timothy Pollard to suture a damaged tendon in the left knee of RPSC employee Dar Gibson in a two-hour operation July 5...