Virtual Patient

A virtual patient is typically a highly detailed, anatomically correct VR puppet of a human or animal body. More advanced surgical versions use haptic force feedback hardware to maximise realism. They are used to train doctors or surgeons on patient care or operations, without risk to actual people, or use of expensive cadavers.

See also: Virtual Cadaver

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Pharmacist Training Via Virtual Patient
Pharmacist training has joined surgeon training, and midwifery, on the ranks of medical professionals to be trained on patient interaction and condition diagnosis via virtual reality.

Improving Robotic Surgery by integrating Augmented Reality Elements
Robotic surgical procedures are carried out with the aid of a camera system attached alongside the tools on the robotic arm that is inserted into the body of a patient. A surgeon carries out the operation by seeing through the camera's eye. As such, augmented reality systems have always seemed a good fit to overlay a virtual representation of the patient's innards, along with the full size and shape of the target area, on the display screen. However, the difficulty of AR object recognition inside the body has always proven too much of a hurdle. Until now.

Telehealth: Giving Doctors a Medical Library on the Move
One of the problems with telehealth is, whilst the doctor and the patient can be connected practically anywhere, regardless of where the doctor is, orwhere the patient is, that can cause a potential problem, if the doctor is somewhere where they don't actually have access to diagnosis aids at the time.

Form Fitting Prosthetics Using DICOM Data
The LayerWise jaw, fitted to its first and last human patient. It is a first in prosthetics, because it was tailor made to the skull of the patient who so badly needed it, and the last one ever to be made to fit that skull.

Better Lubricant Leads to Longer-Lasting Bone Implants
One of the greatest problems with prosthetic parts, is that artificial parts don't self-repair. This means that in the case of non-essential prosthetics such as bones, a patient usually outlives their prosthesis. They require the time, expense, and recuperation of additional new joint surgeries at least once per decade. It would be better to make the first prosthetic strong enough to outlive the patient.

Personalised Healthcare – Simulation of Blood
A simulation of blood flows and clots, personalised to every individual patient from a sample of their blood, has been developed in order to precisely ascertain which drug to give a specific patient to break up plaques harmlessly, and which to absolutely never give.

Philips euHeart Computer Modelling Project Aims to Build a Virtual Heart
Philips Electronics announced at the end of August 2008, that it was going to lead a consortium, with the express goal of developing a virtual reality heart simulator sophisticated enough to be used in patient care.

Philips Wireless Detector
The wireless X-ray machine which brings X-rays to the patient, rather than the other way around.

VR Interfaces: Simroid

Simroid, or 'simulator android' is a gynoid which has been developed by Dr. Naotake Shibui of the Nippon Dental University in Tokyo, to be used as a patient for dentist trainees.

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