The course, with more than 300 attendees, represents a paradigm shift by betting on online learning, applying the latest 3D technologies to teach new skills and techniques in the field of anesthesia, a specialty in which constant training is essential. to improve patient safety and reduce morbidity and mortality (rate of deaths from disease in a population and at a given time).
For this meeting, the virtual Hospital La Paz has been created with the same rooms as the center and immersive spaces set up so that attendees can enjoy demonstrative clinical experiences, taking advantage of all the potential offered by the new innovative technologies of virtual reality, augmented and mixed.
La Paz performs more than 50,000 surgeries each year, of which 16,305 are performed under general anesthesia. Of these, 13,505 are performed in the operating room and another 2,800 in other healthcare areas outside the operating room. Correct isolation of the airway and ventilation are priorities, since the inability to maintain a patent airway that guarantees the necessary oxygenation can cause serious complications and even death.
The Anesthesiology service of a hospital center has the mission of providing the patient with medical assistance based on safety and personal comfort through the application of techniques and procedures that avoid pain and protect them from the aggression that surgery entails, maintaining their constants. vital before, during and after any operation.
Its role is also fundamental in a large number of explorations, both diagnostic and therapeutic, which require analgesic techniques due to the invasive nature of these tests. In addition, the resuscitation units provide health care to critically ill patients who, before or after surgery, suffer serious pathophysiological changes.
IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES
To organize this international course, we have had Ole Digital Solutions who has made the design and development of the virtual space in which various immersive experiences are lived, as well as the Advanced Simulation Center of the Health Research Institute of the Hospital La Paz-IdiPAZ that gives structural support to this technological challenge thanks to its executive capacity and human.
Within the metaverse, Simuvad 2023 is made up of a main room to receive registered professionals and guide them through the information panels through the various rooms of the virtual La Paz Hospital. It has been possible to follow the course in real time with broadcasts of the lectures and different intubation and ventilation techniques, as well as live intubations with simultaneous debate from Professor Ortiz Vázquez’s classroom. The practical workshops carried out in the Advanced Simulation Center, the library where they can consult and download the available bibliography and the exhibitors in the commercial area are available.
