Unpublished: these doctors treated a virtual patient!

The operating room is not in the real world. Neither does the patient. For the first time, medical students at Addenbrooke University Hospital in Cambridge were able to practice caring for a virtual patient, in hologram. Equipped with a virtual helmet on the head equipped with theapplication training in mixed reality (Microsoft HoloLens), students follow a medical scenario designed by the University of Cambridge. The first module focuses on the care of the most frequent respiratory diseases and the management of emergencies.

A virtual patient at the service of medicine

The HoloScenario app helps recreate a realistic medical environment where physicians make real-time decisions regarding the care and treatment of the holographic patient. Trainers can adapt the patient’s response, add complications or record exchanges between doctors to review after the simulation.

Aniket Bharadwaj, one of the first doctors in training to use this devicerecount : ” Throughout the curriculum in medical school, we had scenarios where actors intervened as patients. With the pandemicall of this changed into interactions based on the tablets because of the risk posed by the virus. have a patient hologram that can be seen, heard and interacted with is really exciting and will really make a difference in student learning “.

The first virtual care modules concern the treatment of asthma, anaphylaxis, pulmonary embolism and pneumonia. Other modules are to come in the field of cardiology and neurology.