Virtual reality in medicine Bashny.Net

Education h4> The surgeon can тренировать their skills, conducting operations at the gym. Thus patients will not go to the expense. Modern simulators have graphical component and tactile feedback. In the photo below - the learning process of students in a New York medical college Weill Cornell, which is equipped with a special room of virtual reality.



It looks like симулятор for dentists.





In order to understand the patient, sometimes you have to get into his skin. Mindscape application of Viscira allows look at the world through the eyes of a man with productive symptoms of schizophrenia - delusions, auditory hallucinations and thought disorder. Development is not for therapy, namely for medical students, as well as relatives of patients - to understand how to live with this disease.



Viscira began working with virtual reality in 2011, and the first development was the application EyeMac - Simulation age malyakulyarnoy degeneration: in this disease distorted lines and objects, and in sight spots appear. Ophthalmologists on yourself to feel these symptoms.

Prepare for operations h4> Surgeons, having before our eyes three-dimensional model of an organ or organs to be operated, can better plan the intervention, increasing the chances of the patient, even in the most difficult cases. In the photo below you can see a 3D model of the tumor in the body of a twelve-year girl - an inoperable tumor, located close to the spine and surrounded by healthy bodies. This model has helped surgeons to save the girl.

Virtual reality par with 3D printing can be used to prepare for operations. The data obtained by tomography and three-dimensional data from X-ray and ultrasound, the doctor can see in virtual reality glasses.

Transactions h4> How can you not remember medical robots , which include robot surgeon Da Vinci, designed for operations at any distance. The system consists of two units - actually, four-armed robot that carries out the operation, the surgeon and the unit - the unit with the glasses in which the doctor sees a lot in 3D-format, and joysticks.

Therapy h4> Some of the soldiers who were in hot spots, suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome - sometimes he brings them to suicide. In Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies veterans help with games, shooting games, which reproduce a scene from life - as a basis for taking the time in which a person was injured. One of the patients was sure enough did to rescue a comrade in battle. Virtual reality has shown that he has done everything he could, and it contributed to the improvement of his condition.



PTSD treated using virtual reality for patients, пострадавших from terrorist attacks September 11, 2001. On the image - a terrorist attack in a virtual reality. The model is designed to help the patient come to terms with this event.



As virtual reality influenced the depression in survivors of September 11th.



Virtual reality helps people cope with phobias. For example, the application of Spiderworld HITlab intended for the treatment of arachnophobia - like cures like. The same application developers made SnowWorld, where you can play snowballs, to reduce pain in patients with burns.







Virtual reality helps to cope with burns - throwing snowballs at penguins distracting and reduces pain.







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