Kim, J.-S.; Kim, K.-W.; Yang, S.-W.; Chung, J.-W.; Moon, S.-Y. Immersive VR (Virtual Reality) Simulator for Vein Blood Sampling. Technologies2023, 11, 158.
Kim, J.-S.; Kim, K.-W.; Yang, S.-W.; Chung, J.-W.; Moon, S.-Y. Immersive VR (Virtual Reality) Simulator for Vein Blood Sampling. Technologies 2023, 11, 158.
Kim, J.-S.; Kim, K.-W.; Yang, S.-W.; Chung, J.-W.; Moon, S.-Y. Immersive VR (Virtual Reality) Simulator for Vein Blood Sampling. Technologies2023, 11, 158.
Kim, J.-S.; Kim, K.-W.; Yang, S.-W.; Chung, J.-W.; Moon, S.-Y. Immersive VR (Virtual Reality) Simulator for Vein Blood Sampling. Technologies 2023, 11, 158.
Abstract
Vein blood sampling is one of the methods of mass blood sampling, and is an act of drawing blood from a vein for blood type discrimination, confirmation of various physiological indicators, disease diagnosis, and the like, and is the most commonly used blood sampling method. An important point in vein blood sampling is to search for the exact location of the vein and insert the blood sampling. This is influenced by the patient's obesity, skin and blood vessel conditions, and the experience of the clinical technologist, nurse, and resident who performs the blood sampling. It is required to perform blood sampling technique practice. However, due to many limitations of the practice room or laboratory, there is a problem of using only a limited environment and model for clinical practice. As a result, many medical educational institutions have situations in which only fragmentary clinical practices are performed, and it is difficult to per-form a large number of blood sampling skills practices, so they do not provide enough experience to understand the actual skill field. In this paper, we propose a method for developing a virtual reality-based vein blood sampling simulator to practice a large number of blood sampling techniques without restrictions. The proposed vein blood sampling simulator can operate a 3D model related to vein blood sampling using HMD Controller and Haptic in a virtual space for vein blood sampling practice by wearing an HMD (Head mounted display), and can perform vein blood sampling practice through interaction with the patient 3D model. there is. In addition, the effectiveness of the simulator developed for dental students was verified, and as a result of the verification, the potential of the proposed vein blood sampling simulator was confirmed.
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