A glimpse of 3D surgical animations
What are 3D surgical animations?
Have you ever heard the term “craniectomy”? Craniectomy is a surgical treatment that alleviates the pressure in the brain which causes swelling of the brain. It’s a complex surgery that involves removing the skull and surgeons need to be very cautious while they are making small holes on a skull with a medical-grade grill. Indeed, surgical and scientific processes are sometimes intricate and difficult to understand from traditional photography or text format. Most of the healthcare professionals use 3D surgical animations that provide stunning visuals with more information in simple short animated videos.
Surgical animations are short video tutorials for healthcare professionals and surgeons that explain how to use surgical devices, how to implement a complex surgery procedure etc. Let’s unwrap why 3D surgical animation is a crucial tool for physicians and how they get benefits from mind-boggling appealing visuals.
3D surgical animation is a crucial tool for physicians
For surgeons, it’s their vital role to perform the surgery successfully and to promote a healthy environment to prospective patients. The surgical animations allow the users to have a walkthrough of real-life situations and make them understand, realize the critical incidents of prospective patients. It evokes their brainstorming ideas on how to perform the surgery, and in which way can quickly access the affected body parts.
Moreover, 3D surgical animations is a boot camp for medical students to practice surgical procedures, and to teach them how to use medical devices or equipments. The clear-cut edge surgical animated videos precisely demonstrate how to set, insert, operate, conserve and eject a new medical device. It not only educates the medical students but also for educating, training the assistant staff, even experienced physicians to update with new surgical device or procedure.
Additionally, there is also a scientific study manifest that Surgical videos with 3D animated sequences convey a better understanding of difficult surgical topics among medical students. The study was conducted among the students of the department of ophthalmology, at the Medical University of Vienna. Students were divided into two groups. One group of students were allowed to watch only surgical videos whereas the other group of students viewed the surgical videos with 3D animations.
As a consequence, the 3D group students were found more interactive and answered many questions that were asked after the presentations. The 3D group students surpassed the other group those who viewed only conventional surgical videos by 16 % in topographical understanding and 7 % in theoretical understanding.
Advancements in 3D surgical animations
Well, the known paradox is that there are numerous postgraduate training positions are available in the surgery department but the funding for educating, training medical students in the surgical sector is scarce. It is not a surprising fact that the annual spending for training the chief resident, (the resident that is in the last year of training) of general surgery, is about $53 million per year.
As a result, several authors or physicians have developed a new training environment that uses virtual reality, and augmented reality simulations will minimize the cost and offers effective learning with more interactive digital systems. Let’s throw light on advanced techniques in surgical animations.
What is a Simulation?
A Simulation is an animated model that imitates the function of a body over time. Simulation is an effective medical education tool that allows the users to be interacted with peers or associate physicians, in the operating room. Moreover, they can recreate real-life scenarios and examine, realize and emotionally connect with the fiction world. Additionally, simulators are easy to utilize, available at any time making it flexible for healthcare professionals to train on the specific surgery.
Eventually, it aids the physicians to grab knowledge on their specific field, gain skills by practicing the new surgical technologies as well as evokes their innovative ideas to invent a new medical device or equipment. This, in turn, upgrades the wealthiness of prospective patients. Yes! Your guess is right. Health is wealth!
Simulation for laparoscopic surgery become popular from the late 1980s. Laparoscopic surgery is an operation performed in an abdomen using small incisions with the help of a camera. Simulations are widely used by surgeons to understand various complex surgeries like cardiovascular surgeries, spine surgery, plastic surgeries, etc.
Virtual Reality simulation
Virtual reality simulation is a computer-generated simulation in which a human being can interact with a fictional three-dimensional environment using special goggles with screens equipped with sensors. With virtual reality, users can realize and feel like the real world around them.
Augmented Reality simulation
Augmented reality simulation is an interactive environment simulation that connects both real and virtual worlds, where the objects and human beings reside in the real world. People can interact with objects in a virtual environment.
I hope you got some insights about 3D surgical animations and their key role in the healthcare industry. You will be exploring virtual reality surgical simulation and augmented reality surgical simulation in my upcoming post.
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