SIGN Fracture Care International y PrecisionOS unen esfuerzos para educar a los cirujanos de todo el mundo.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 15th, 2020 — Epic MegaGrants recipient, PrecisionOS Technology, announced today a first-of-its-kind partnership that makes virtual reality (VR) surgical training for orthopedic surgeons available to physicians worldwide, expanding fracture care to 5 billion people in the world’s developing countries.
Según un informe de 2015 de The Lancet Commission, el 40 por ciento de los hospitales en los países en desarrollo brindan atención quirúrgica para fracturas abiertas. La falta de acceso al tratamiento para tales lesiones, disponible de forma rutinaria en el mundo desarrollado, genera una carga económica significativa para los pacientes y sus familias. Existe una necesidad urgente de capacitar a más especialistas quirúrgicos para atender estas regiones.
“From the day we founded the company, we had a vision for using the immense scalability of virtual reality training to improve surgeon training and raise the standard of care worldwide,” states Danny Goel, M.D., CEO and co-founder of PrecisionOS. “SIGN Fracture Care International has been dedicated to that same mission and we are proud to support their work. We are grateful to our partners in this effort who are helping us to realize our collective vision.”
SIGN Fracture Care es una organización humanitaria que brinda a los heridos acceso deficiente a la cirugía de fracturas mediante la donación de educación ortopédica y sistemas de implantes a cirujanos en países en desarrollo. Educar a los cirujanos locales para que atiendan y traten a los pacientes en sus comunidades de origen desarrolla una capacidad ortopédica sostenible y mejora la calidad de vida y la longevidad de las personas en los países de ingresos bajos y medios.
The use of VR education will allow SIGN Fracture Care to expand its training efforts beyond their current methods. Currently they serve in 53 countries and 365 hospitals. They will distribute Oculus Quest wireless VR headsets among their hospitals and teach remotely using the “multiplayer” option supported by the PrecisionOS system. Two surgeons and SIGN Board Members, David Shearer, M.D. and Richard Gellman, M.D., will deliver the training alongside the founder and president of SIGN Fracture Care, Lewis Zirkle M.D.
“As it stands we have to spend several months a year traveling or flying surgeons to our headquarters to do training with the SIGN System,” says Dr. Shearer. “With VR, we have the opportunity to provide high-quality training remotely, which can markedly reduce the time and expense required. This has the potential to free up resources to train more surgeons, invest in manufacturing, and ultimately achieve greater impact.”
Dr. Zirkle says, “It is a pleasure to explore the educational opportunities to teach surgeons in developing countries about techniques and indications for orthopedic surgery. It is exciting to expand our training capabilities, and we want to thank PrecisionOS for the donation of the Oculus Quest based training solution.”
El equipo de PrecisionOS está utilizando Motor de juego irreal from Epic Games as the technology foundation of their training solution. “Epic Games continues to support their advances in training simulation to improve healthcare delivery. Despite a very mature use of physical simulation, the healthcare domain is still at the infancy of its adoption of digital training, by making Unreal Engine more user friendly we empower subject matter experts to build training solutions for all” Sebastien Loze, Gerente de la industria de simulaciones en Epic Games.
La colaboración reconoce la creciente importancia y uso de la realidad virtual para la formación de médicos, específicamente en cirugía ortopédica. En comparación con las modalidades de formación convencionales, la realidad virtual y aumentada imparte una nueva profundidad de aprendizaje contextual al mejorar la comprensión, las habilidades técnicas y la preparación quirúrgica. El entrenamiento quirúrgico de realidad virtual introduce una nueva era de entrenamiento bajo demanda que es rentable y escalable.
A través de la capacitación y la educación en realidad virtual, los cirujanos practicarán y aprenderán virtualmente a realizar procedimientos de implantes tantas veces como sea necesario para adquirir habilidades críticas y confianza. Este avance en la formación quirúrgica es especialmente importante para SIGN Fracture Care, ya que los nuevos cirujanos deben formarse con un cirujano SIGN experimentado antes de que la organización done implantes o instrumentos. SIGN Fracture Care ahora tendrá la capacidad de usar los datos recopilados por el sistema PrecisionOS para monitorear y rastrear el progreso del cirujano.
“Our goal and mission has been to provide the highest quality of education on a global scale”, says Dr. Goel. “I have significant admiration for the work that Dr. Zirkle and SIGN Fracture Care have been doing. To be involved in this capacity is extremely humbling for all us at PrecisionOS.”
Para obtener más información sobre el lanzamiento del programa y las historias de éxito, visite www.precisionostech.com
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Sobre PrecisionOS
PrecisionOS was founded by a team of clinical orthopedic surgeons and game developers to create the most relevant and applicable medical-grade-VR-simulation™ experience. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia and backed by the prestigious AO Foundation, the company’s mission is to provide first-in-class orthopedic surgical training on a global scale. Given its focus on surgical education, PrecisionOS is not only a CME provider through the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, but has also established partnerships with more than 10 North American orthopedic residency programs and instituciones medicas. The company’s scientifically validated product has been tested among its end users and customers resulting in business relationships with some of the top orthopedic companies in the industry.
Acerca de SIGN Fracture Care International
SIGN Fracture Care International ha estado capacitando a los cirujanos locales para que traten a sus pacientes pobres en países en desarrollo durante 20 años. Nuestro modelo es brindar educación ortopédica a cirujanos en países en desarrollo y luego donar los instrumentos e implantes adecuados para que puedan tratar a pacientes con fracturas graves. SIGN Fracture Care ha ayudado a más de 250.000 pacientes en 53 países en desarrollo a recuperarse de huesos rotos y lesiones traumáticas. Para obtener más información, visite www.signfracturecare.org.
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