Mixed reality surgical mentoring of combat casualty care related procedures in a perfused cadaver model: Initial results of a randomized feasibility study

Surgery, 2022

Matthew D Tadlock, Erik J Olson, Danilo Gasques, Roland Champagne, Michael J Krzyzaniak, Shawn A Belverud, Vijay Ravindra, Jakob Kerns, Pamela M Choi, Jennifer Deveraux, Janet Johnson, Thomas Sharkey, Michael Yip, Nadir Weibel, Konrad Davis

Publisher Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039606022005037

Abstract: Most telemedicine modalities have limited ability to enhance procedural and operative care. We developed a novel system to provide synchronous bidirectional expert mixed reality-enabled virtual procedural mentoring. In this feasibility study, we evaluated mixed reality mentoring of combat casualty care related procedures in a re-perfused cadaver model.Novices received real-time holographic mentoring from experts using augmented reality via Hololens (Microsoft Inc, Redmond, WA). The experts maintained real-time awareness of the novice’s operative environment using virtual reality via HTC-Vive (HTC Corp, Xindian District, Taiwan). Additional cameras (both environments) and novel software created the immersive, shared, 3-dimensional mixed reality environment in which the novice and expert collaborated. The novices were prospectively randomized to either mixed reality or audio-only …

Tadlock et al. (2022) Mixed reality surgical mentoring of combat casualty care related procedures in a perfused cadaver model: Initial results of a randomized feasibility study, Surgery, vol. 172, no. 5, pp. 1337-1345.