""If you go towards the middle, that's the spinal cord, and if you hit that, the patient is paralyzed. And if you drive the needles a little too deep here, this is your aorta, this is your vena cava, and you can bleed out on the table.""
""What Skylight does is display images directly on a patient's skin to tell you exactly what's underneath as you're cutting. You can basically get X-ray vision. It's like a live tattoo that moves with the patient.""
Illuminant, co-founded by James Hu and Eldrick Millares, is developing Skylight, a smart surgical lamp that projects real-time images onto a patient's skin during spine surgery. This technology aims to improve precision in high-stakes procedures where small mistakes can lead to severe consequences, such as paralysis or fatal bleeding. Each year, approximately 1.2 million spine surgeries are performed in the U.S. The startup has successfully raised $8.4 million in seed funding to advance its innovative approach to surgical visualization.
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