Via Satellite

In a world first, surgical teams in NZ and Australia have successfully completed a trans-Tasman kidney operation using state-of-the -art digital conferencing technology. The procedure itself took place in Christchurch, where a team of doctors led by Peter Davidson worked under the electronic supervision of David Nichol, of Brisbane’s Princess Alexandra Hospital. Davidson: “This will be an advantage to surgeons in this part of the world, where we are remote from other western countries … [Now] we can have world experts involved in operations that we are performing in real time.”