"Surgical Mediverse" Collaboration Combats Congenital Heart Disease
Cincinnati Children’s innovative “Surgeons Without Borders” project, which uses virtual reality to combat infant mortality caused by congenital heart disease (CHD), has won a prestigious Unity for Humanity grant. The project’s VR Surgical Simulation Suite (VR3S) enables surgeons to collaborate globally in real-time, even in low-resource settings, through 3D surgical planning and a “Surgical Mediverse.” “This technology gives us the potential to partner with local surgeons to save children’s lives,” says David Morales, MD, co-executive director of the Heart Institute. Ryan Moore, MD, chief emerging technologies officer and founder/medical director of Digital Experience Technologies adds, “For the first time ever, surgical experts can impact a child’s life anywhere in the world.”
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