2022 Pediatric Surgery Update Course - Top disruptive technologies in medicine

Medical escape rooms have been utilized to teach and reinforce topics including cancer diagnosis, cardiovascular physiology, and fluids and electrolytes.

Rami Shaban believes that adding competition to learning drastically improves retention.

In 2018, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford piloted VR capabilities in pediatric clinical settings and has expanded to one of the nation's largest VR programs with over 150 use cases per month.

A randomized controlled trial from Seoul National University College of Medicine showed that VR experience of the preoperative process could reduce preoperative anxiety and improve compliance during anesthetic induction in children undergoing elective surgery and general anesthesia.

Induu allows healthcare professionals to create a unique copy of their patient using CT or MRI scans, and the surgeon can review the digital twin with a virtual headset before going into the case.

A significant percentage of surgical residents report they do not feel ready to independently perform procedures upon completion of their training.

VR training represents an accessible, cost-effective, and deliberate practice methodology to help surgeons reach a competency threshold or achieve surgical mastery.

The FDA approved Precision OS Envision as a VR preoperative planning tool, available in early 2022.

The surgery's direction came from Great Ormond Street Hospital in London while the actual surgery was happening in Rio de Janeiro.

Proximy allows multiple people in remote locations to virtually interact in a way that mimics collaborating in the same operating room, using AI, machine learning, and augmented reality.

Wristbands are difficult to fasten, may irritate, must be rotated to be scanned, can be too tight and hurt the patient, or too loose and get lost.

The wristband loss rate is 12% in the NICU, newborn, and pediatric population.

In the pilot study, 80% of clinicians preferred the ID shield over traditional wristbands.

The first Android device included NFC in 2010 and Apple followed in 2014, meaning NFC has been present since iPhone 6.

Children's Health in Dallas, Texas is now using identity shields after Northwell Health.

Dr. Bramlet at University of Illinois creates digital twins for regular pediatric cardiology cases in a couple of hours for emergencies, and surgical oncology cases take a couple of days but not more than that.

Dr. Bramlet's lab offers a free submission form where they will create a digital twin for your patient to use for the case and email it for free if you have a VR headset.

Fifteen years ago Rick Satava predicted at SAGES that patients would get a CT scan on check-in, surgeons would practice the operation on a robot the day before, hit save when they got it right, then the next day dock the robot and hit go to watch the operation.