Virtual Reality Training Application for Surgical Scrubbing-in Procedure
OwnerStephen Paul Cantoninventor
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are immersive virtual and/or augmented reality education/training tools useable to teach operating room personnel any or all of scrubbing-in procedures, gowning/gloving procedures, and proper operating room etiquette. The training tools provide individuals with active practice in the operating room setting prior to the real-world applications, and thus allows the user to become more adept with the necessary procedures prior to entering the operating room. The disclosed virtual and/or augmented reality training will make for a better, less stressful, risk-reducing (e.e., infection of patient), operating room environment that is more conducive for both learning by the students and surgical performance by the experienced operating room personnel.
Claims20
A training system comprising:
- a non-transitory memory comprising processor-executable instructions;
- and
- a processor coupled to the non-transitory memory and configured to execute the processor-executable instructions, wherein the processor-executable instructions comprise instructions to:
- generate an augmented or virtual reality simulation of an operating room environment;
- detect, using at least one sensor, an occurrence of an action within the operating room environment;
- compare the action to a performance metric;
- and
- generate, based at least in part on the comparing, a performance evaluation,
- wherein the performance metric identifies actions taken during one or more of a scrubbing-in procedure, a gowning/gloving procedure, before a surgical procedure, during the surgical procedure, and after the surgical procedure.
A training method for a scrubbing-in procedure, the method comprising:
- identifying, using a processor, a scrubbing-in procedure including a plurality of steps;
- presenting, using an augmented reality display of an augmented reality device, a virtual representation of a sink room of an operating room suite;
- querying a user for a first step in the scrubbing-in procedure;
- determining whether the first step in the scrubbing-in procedure has been completed;
- and
- in response to determining that the first step has been completed, presenting to the user a virtual representation of a subsequent step in the scrubbing-in procedure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.