Surgery in virtual reality: How VR could give trainee doctors the feel of real patients Written by Jo Best, Contributor June 1, 2017 at 3:00 a.m. PT A virtual operating theatre is helping train up ...

A virtual reality surgery took place last week at the Royal London Hospital. Nearly 55,000 people tuned in worldwide to watch the surgeon conduct the procedure, which lasted two hours and 40 minutes.

He said virtual reality, like first-year resident Dr. Christopher DeFrancesco was using, is particularly well-suited for orthopedic surgery because many procedures have well-defined steps that a ...

The world of virtual reality is giving doctors a new pathway to cure patients. In the past, some of these patients had no hope for a safe treatment with traditional surgery. Now, a Northshore ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Virtual reality isn't just for video games. The technology is transforming medicine, too. As CBS2's Dr. Max Gomez reports, plastic surgeons are using virtual reality to ...

Collins has loaded the 3-D reconstruction of Felicia Luna’s aneurysm and a virtual craniotomy so students can follow in virtual reality as Steinberg explains his surgery strategy. Steinberg uses ...

Image 2: Stanford's virtual simulator for endoscopic sinus surgery. Image 3: A screenshot from the temporal bone surgery simulator. Image 4: Arthroscopy simulator from Touch of Life Technologies ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS)— Virtual reality is a computer-generated experience that can be similar to the real-world, or completely different. People can physically and mentally engage with these … ...

EyeSi2, a virtual reality simulator for eye surgery training, is not only for beginners. Staying current with new surgical techniques requires life-long learning for eye surgeons. After ...

Immersing patients in virtual reality could help reduce the amount of local anesthetic needed for surgery, a new study has found. A team of researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in ...