Extended reality technologies show broad potential across all stages of cardiovascular medicine, though widespread implementation remains limited by high costs, reliability, and lack of trial evidence.
Extended realities offer innovative ways to complement traditional cardiovascular practice through enhanced visualization, training, and patient care.
Technological advancement and the COVID-19 pandemic have brought virtual learning and working into our daily lives. Extended realities (XR), an umbrella term for all the immersive technologies that merge virtual and physical experiences, will undoubtedly be an indispensable part of future clinical practice. The intuitive and three-dimensional nature of XR has great potential to benefit healthcare providers and empower patients and physicians. In the past decade, the implementation of XR into cardiovascular medicine has flourished such that it is now integrated into medical training, patient education, pre-procedural planning, intra-procedural visualization, and post-procedural care. This review article discussed how XR could provide innovative care and complement traditional practice, as well as addressing its limitations and considering its future perspectives.
Tsai et al. (2023) conducted a review in Cardiovascular disease. Extended realities (XR) was evaluated. Extended reality technologies show broad potential across all stages of cardiovascular medicine, though widespread implementation remains limited by high costs, reliability, and lack of trial evidence.