Exploring the use of virtual reality in surgical education

Ntakakis, Georgios; Plomariti, Christina; Frantzidιs, Christos A.; Antoniou, Panagiotis E.; Bamidis, Panagiotis D.; Tsoulfas, Georgios

doi:10.5500/wjt.v13.i2.36

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“…Experiential healthcare education is becoming an essential part of contemporary curricula. Basic curricular topics such as anatomy and advanced manual skills, like surgery, benefit from the immediacy and multisensory engagement of XR content ( 37 ). With the emerging mainstreaming of XR healthcare education, the problem of content availability is becoming increasingly exacerbated ( 38 ) Co-creative healthcare XR content design emerges as a viable solution for covering the curricular needs of the modern healthcare classroom ( 39 ).…”

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Thematic analysis of stakeholder perceptions for co-creative healthcare XR resource design and development; traversing a minefield of opportunities

Antoniou,

Varella,

Pickering

et al. 2024

Front. Digit. Health

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IntroductionThe expansive curricular volume of healthcare education makes a necessity the incorporation of innovative methods and immersive media in it. The core challenge in such approaches is the timely development of relevant immersive content such as Virtual, Augmented or Mixed Reality (VR/AR/MR) resources for healthcare topics. There is currently significant interest in the use of co-creative methods for streamlining immersive content development.MethodsA core research pursuit in this translational research field is the formulation of evidence-based, optimized workflows that streamline immersive content creation allowing for rapid expansion of innovative educational approaches in healthcare curricula. The purpose of this paper is to aggregate the perceptions of healthcare technologists and educators who participated in a series of co-creation sessions in order to elicit their best practice insights for design and development of XR educational resources using co-creative methods.ResultsAccording to our thematic analysis, findings of the qualitative study demonstrated that a rigorous organizational approach is required to maintain a constructive exchange of information and to keep the design process alive for both content and technical experts. In addition, rapid prototype and display of co-created features can empower their contributions and help them design more efficiently.DiscussionCo-creative content production can benefit from adaption of existing frameworks and lightweight authoring environments that can facilitate generalized XR content development use cases.

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Thematic analysis of stakeholder perceptions for co-creative healthcare XR resource design and development; traversing a minefield of opportunities

Antoniou,

Varella,

Pickering

et al. 2024

Front. Digit. Health

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“…7 VR technology has rapidly developed and its use in health care such as surgical education has been explored. 8 It provides the learner a safe space, where there is no risk of harm to real patients, with the opportunity to work through a clinical scenario multiple times and have performance evaluated. A systematic review of 31 studies concluded that VR use in health care provided improved post-intervention knowledge and skills outcomes when compared with other forms of digital education or traditional learning.…”

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“…Virtual reality (VR) based simulation training helps create an immersive three dimensional environment using a head‐mounted display, helping to simulate real life 7 . VR technology has rapidly developed and its use in health care such as surgical education has been explored 8 . It provides the learner a safe space, where there is no risk of harm to real patients, with the opportunity to work through a clinical scenario multiple times and have performance evaluated.…”

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Using virtual reality based learning to provide education on the management of diabetes emergencies for doctors in training

Mallik,

Pottle,

Atkinson

et al. 2023

Practical Diabetes

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It is essential that all doctors in training feel confident in their ability to manage diabetes emergencies occurring in hospital settings. This is particularly pertinent when specialist expertise is not always immediately available, as well as at a time when diabetes prevalence in hospitals is rising.The project team created interactive, immersive scenarios and ran ‘DEVICE’ (Diabetes Emergencies: Virtual Interactive Clinical Education), a pilot study to test the feasibility of using virtual reality (VR) as a safe‐space learning medium for training medical staff on diabetes emergency management. Each study participant worked through two emergency scenarios, under the supervision of a consultant trainer. Analysis of the participants’ performance metrics showed improved clinical approaches and increased confidence in handling diabetes emergencies by these non‐specialist participants.Here we describe this pilot study development in more detail, as well as provide an update following the national roll‐out of these training resources across seven national postgraduate medical deaneries. The DEVICE initiative was found to be scalable and sustainable, with VR‐based learning deemed to be a popular, safe, and effective teaching tool for diabetes. We are now developing VR‐based training cases for use by other health care professionals within primary and secondary care. Copyright © 2023 John Wiley & Sons.

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“…There are different applications, such as in therapy: Emmelkamp et al [11] described its effectiveness in anxiety disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder; Juan et al [12] studies an application with three serious games for motor rehabilitation of hands movements; with the applications presented in the review developed by Ehioghae et al [13], they highlighted VR as a promising way to optimize postoperative recovery in orthopedic surgery patients. Example applications for the improvement in the quality of education include that demonstrated in the meta-analysis on nursing education developed by Chen et al [14], the virtual environment of the hydrogen atom that allows exploring atomic orbitals in 3D space developed by Suno et al [15], and in the various cases of surgical education presented in the review by Ntakakis et al [16].…”

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Brain–Computer Interface Based on PLV-Spatial Filter and LSTM Classification for Intuitive Control of Avatars

Martín-Chinea,

Gómez-González,

Acosta

2024

Electronics

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This study researches the combination of the brain–computer interface (BCI) and virtual reality (VR) in order to improve user experience and facilitate control learning in a safe environment. In addition, it assesses the applicability of the phase-locking value spatial filtering (PLV-SF) method and the Short-Term Memory Network (LSTM) in a real-time EEG-based BCI. The PLV-SF has been shown to improve signal quality, and the LSTM exhibits more stable and accurate behavior. Ten healthy volunteers, six men and four women aged 22 to 37 years, participated in tasks inside a virtual house, using their EEG states to direct their movements and actions through a commercial, low-cost wireless EEG device together with a virtual reality system. A BCI and VR can be used effectively to enable the intuitive control of virtual environments by immersing users in real-life situations, making the experience engaging, fun, and safe. Control test times decreased significantly from 3.65 min and 7.79 min in the first and second quartiles, respectively, to 2.56 min and 4.28 min. In addition, a free route was performed for the three best volunteers who finished in an average time of 6.30 min.

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Exploring the use of virtual reality in surgical education

Cited by 26 publications

References 19 publications

Thematic analysis of stakeholder perceptions for co-creative healthcare XR resource design and development; traversing a minefield of opportunities

Thematic analysis of stakeholder perceptions for co-creative healthcare XR resource design and development; traversing a minefield of opportunities

Using virtual reality based learning to provide education on the management of diabetes emergencies for doctors in training

Brain–Computer Interface Based on PLV-Spatial Filter and LSTM Classification for Intuitive Control of Avatars

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