3D Printing + VR Aid Anesthesiologists in Complex Cases

Medscape January 19, 2022
Lucy Hicks

Using patient-specific 3D or virtual reality (VR) models for preoperative assessment could help anesthesiologists better plan for procedures involving patients with suspected difficult airways, according to an abstract presented at the Euroanaesthesia 2021 meeting in Munich, Germany.

“With a specific plan in place, there is less trial and error, wastage of equipment and trauma to the patient,” the authors write.

Although these modeling technologies have been used to train residents in intubation procedures, they are not as widely used in clinical anesthesia, said lead author Ruth Shaylor, BMBS, an anesthesiologist at the Tel Aviv Medical Center in Israel. “Until now, we hadn’t realized how it can be useful for us,” she told Medscape Medical News.

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