Medical Xpress December 18, 2021
The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC)

New research being presented at Euroanaesthesia, the annual meeting of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC), held online this year, suggests that using 3D printing and virtual reality can improve patient care and reduce anaesthesiologist stress and equipment wastage.

An anaesthesia team from the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in Israel report on the use of 3D technology to prepare for operations in 20 patients, including a 35-week-old fetus who required caesarean delivery and an 83-year old woman requiring .

The majority of cases reported in the study involve children undergoing lung surgery, but the technology was also used to devise personalised plans for patients with large mediastinal masses (MM) in the chest that compress...

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Topics: 3D Printing, ASC, Health System / Hospital, Metaverse/VR, Physician, Provider, Technology
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