Search Tag: virtual reality
2022 25 Oct
VR app for extracorporeal heart and lung support at ESCIM LIVES 2022 Fresenius Medical Care’s heart & lung division Xenios AG presents its virtual reality application at ESCIM LIVES congress in Paris. Visitors can discover a fictitious ECMO case and interactive hands-on experiences. Fresenius Medical Care’s heart & lung division Xenios...Read more
2020 19 May
Virtual reality (VR) is a developing technology with much current interest in its potential to improve patient outcome in a variety of clinical settings. Critically ill patients, their relatives and intensive care unit (ICU) staff are all at high risk of stress and anxiety and patients often experience pain. This study explores the potential benefits...Read more
2019 26 Sep
An overview of the practical uses of virtual reality in the ICU and the benefits it can provide. One way of defining virtual reality (VR) is as the set of techniques and systems required for human beings to enter computer-generated synthetic worlds. VR techniques are based on real-time interaction with an artificial immersive world using behavioural...Read more
2019 30 May
A pilot study at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago An overview of the virtual reality programme at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and its potential benefits on patient outcomes. Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago has introduced virtual reality into their paediatric intensive...Read more
2016 11 Jun
An intensive and intermediate care unit due to open in 2018 at Seinäjoki Central Hospital in Finland is the result of extensive evidence-based design research and virtual modelling. The facility with 24 single patient rooms will be the first ICU with single patient rooms in Finland. Design The EVICURES project included research carried out by...Read more