Using Low-Cost Virtual Reality Simulation to Build Surgical Capacity for Cervical Cancer Treatment
| Autor: | Richard Sullivan, Anthony Cuevas, Mulindi H. Mwanahamuntu, Eric G. Bing, Boris Fisher, Jonathan Skinner, Groesbeck P. Parham |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Cancer Research medicine.medical_specialty Cost-Benefit Analysis MEDLINE Uterine Cervical Neoplasms Virtual reality lcsh:RC254-282 Disease course Simulation training 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Gynecologic Surgical Procedures medicine Humans Original Report Medical physics Computer Simulation 030212 general & internal medicine Simulation Training Cervical cancer Cost–benefit analysis business.industry Virtual Reality Cancer Reproducibility of Results medicine.disease lcsh:Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens 3. Good health Oncology 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Africa Female business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Global Oncology, Vol 5, Pp 1-7 (2019) Journal of Global Oncology Bing, E G, Parham, G P, Cuevas, A, Fisher, B, Skinner, J, Mwanahamuntu, M & Sullivan, R 2019, ' Using Low-Cost Virtual Reality Simulation to Build Surgical Capacity for Cervical Cancer Treatment ', Journal of global oncology, vol. 2019, no. 5, pp. 1-7 . https://doi.org/10.1200/JGO.18.00263 |
| ISSN: | 2378-9506 |
| DOI: | 10.1200/JGO.18.00263 |
| Popis: | PURPOSE Worldwide, more than 80% of people diagnosed with cancer will require surgery during their disease course, but only 5% to 20% of low- and middle-income countries have access to safe, affordable, and timely surgery. Developing surgical oncology skills requires significant time and mentoring. Virtual reality (VR) simulators can reduce the time required to master surgical procedures but are prohibitively expensive. We sought to determine whether a VR simulator using low-cost computer gaming equipment could train novice surgeons in Africa to perform a virtual radical abdominal (open) hysterectomy (RAH). METHODS Our RAH VR simulator used the Oculus Rift (Oculus VR, Menlo Park, CA), a VR headset with hand controllers that costs less than $1,500. Surgical novices learned to perform five key steps of a virtual RAH. We measured and identified predictors of movement and time efficiency for the simulation. RESULTS Ten novice surgeons in Lusaka, Zambia, enrolled in the study. Movement and time efficiency greatly improved over time. Independent predictors of movement efficiency were number of simulations, surgical experience, and time since college graduation. Independent predictors of time efficiency were number of simulations, surgical experience, days between simulation sessions, age, sex, and an interaction between number of simulations and surgical experience. CONCLUSION Low-cost VR may be an effective tool to help surgical novices learn complex surgical oncology procedures. If learning to perform VR surgical procedures with low-cost hardware leads to faster mastery of surgical procedures in the operating room, low-cost VR may represent one of the solutions to increasing access to surgical cancer care globally. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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