Overview
"Imagine a “wired” simulation center, local but internet linked, where health care professionals can practice, rehearse and show measured competency not unlike the aviation industry,"
- Thomas Krummel, MD
The vision of how we will use technology in the future is:
Surgeons will rehearse an operation on a patient-specific palpable hologram and later, deliver the data set of that operation with robotic assistance
In conjunction with the Cardiovascular Biomechanics Research Laboratory and other Stanford affiliates, we can realize the potential of computational techniques to therapeutic decision making.
In addition to computational techniques, the Goodman Center uses the following modalities in the Simulation Suite.
While seamless immersion is not currently achievable, experience shows that participants in immersive simulations easily suspend disbelief and speak and act much as they do in their real jobs.
– David Gaba, MD
Simulation is a set of “techniques” that can replace or amplify real experiences with planned experiences, often immersive in nature, that evoke or replicate substantial aspects of the real world in a fully interactive fashion. “Immersive” conveys the sense that participants have of being immersed in a task or setting as they would if it were the real world.
