Remote mentoring in laparotomic and laparoscopic cancer surgery during Covid-19 pandemic

An experimental setup based on mixed reality

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ID15327992
AuthorsM De Simone (0000-0002-9957-8114, Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico), Rocco Galati (0000-0001-7065-9968, Department of Oncology Surgery, IRCCS Istituto Tumori “Giovanni Paolo II”, Bari, Italy, corresponding author), Graziana Barile (0000-0003-4358-968X, Department of Oncology Surgery, IRCCS Istituto Tumori “Giovanni Paolo II”, Bari, Italy), Emanuele Grasso (0000-0002-8284-0497, Department of Oncology Surgery, IRCCS Istituto Tumori “Giovanni Paolo II”, Bari, Italy), Raffaele De Luca (0000-0002-9337-0769, Department of Oncology Surgery, IRCCS Istituto Tumori “Giovanni Paolo II”, Bari, Italy), Carmine Cartanese (Department of Oncology Surgery, IRCCS Istituto Tumori “Giovanni Paolo II”, Bari, Italy), Rocco Lomonaco (Department of Oncology Surgery, IRCCS Istituto Tumori “Giovanni Paolo II”, Bari, Italy), Eustachio Ruggieri (Department of Oncology Surgery, IRCCS Istituto Tumori “Giovanni Paolo II”, Bari, Italy), Anna Albano (0000-0001-7217-6310, Department of Oncology Surgery, IRCCS Istituto Tumori “Giovanni Paolo II”, Bari, Italy), Antonello Rucci (Department of Oncology Surgery, IRCCS Istituto Tumori “Giovanni Paolo II”, Bari, Italy), Giuseppe Grassi (0000-0002-8876-3760, Dipartimento Ingegneria Innovazione, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy)
Year2021
Volume26
Issue1
Pages1996923-1996923
Publication date2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedical Education Online (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1087-2981 • E-ISSN: 1087-2981
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10872981.2021.1996923
PMID34713779
OpenAlexW3208456499
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited8

In this paper, Mixed Reality (MR) has been exploited in the operating rooms to perform laparoscopic and open surgery with the aim of providing remote mentoring to the medical doctors under training during the Covid-19 pandemic. The employed architecture, which has put together MR smartglasses, a Digital Imaging Player, and a Mixed Reality Toolkit, has been used for cancer surgery at the IRCCS Hospital 'Giovanni Paolo II' in southern Italy. The feasibility of using the conceived platform for real-time remote mentoring has been assessed on the basis of surveys distributed to the trainees after each surgery

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Augmented reality · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Disease · General surgery · Health care · Human–computer interaction · Laparoscopic surgery · Laparoscopy · Medical education · Medical physics · Mixed reality · Open surgery · Pandemic · Pathology · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 · Telemedicine · Augmented Reality Applications · Computer Science · Medicine · Surgical Simulation and Training · Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts · Surgery

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