Proposal: Fundamental Surgery
For the Student’s Choice presentations we were asked to come up with a topic involving Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality that we hadn’t discussed in class to present to the other students.
Surfing online, I have found a company that builds surgical simulators to train medical students in their residency in doing some common procedures. First of all, here is a link to their webpage: Fundamental Surgery builds surgical simulators based on VR with haptic feedback delivered on low cost hardware.
The surgical simulator delivers a range of procedures like Spinal Pedicle Screw, Total Knee Arthoplasty, Total Hip Arthoplasty and some more. Their applications are based mainly on HTC Vive/Oculus Rift and Touch (Virtual Reality headset and haptic device, respectively). The user is immersed in a virtual Operating Room where the procedure can be conducted on a virtual patient. Thanks to the haptic device, the sense of touch is restored when "touching" the virtual patient with the haptic device. Here is a video on their official Youtube Webpage: I think it would be interesting to talk about it since some people might discover in more detail about an alternative use of Virtual Reality combined with Haptics.
They also provide some applications that use Augmented Reality and HoloLens in order to train medical students in Mixed Reality Simulators. Here are some of the scenarios that can be simulated: |
All the images and videos are property of Fundamental Surgery (https://www.fundamentalsurgery.com/).