Key result
Interactive online 3D simulator enhances perioperative TEE training without time or space limitations.
Why the study?
Perioperative transesophageal echocardiography requires complex skills and advanced cardiac anatomy understanding, but existing simulators have limitations in cost, accessibility, and model quality.
A newly developed free-access online interactive simulator using a high-fidelity 3D human heart model aims to enhance perioperative transesophageal echocardiography training by overcoming traditional barriers of cost and accessibility.
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Offers accessible TEE training alternative; leaves open whether it improves learner outcomes versus commercial simulators.
The clinical uses of perioperative transesophageal echocardiography have grown exponentially in recent years for both cardiac and noncardiac surgical patients. Yet, echocardiography is a complex skill that also requires an advanced understanding of human cardiac anatomy. Although simulation has changed the way echocardiography is taught, most available systems are still limited by investment costs, accessibility, and qualities of the input cardiac 3-dimensional models. In this report, the authors discuss the development of an online simulator using a high-resolution human heart scan that accurately represents real cardiac anatomies, and that should be accessible to a wide range of learners without space or time limitations.
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Arango et al. (2022) studied Perioperative transesophageal echocardiography training. Online interactive simulator using a high-fidelity human heart 3D model was evaluated. An online interactive simulator using a high-resolution human heart scan was developed to enhance perioperative transesophageal echocardiography training without space or time limitations.
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