{"id":98911,"date":"2020-12-04T09:57:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T14:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=98911"},"modified":"2020-12-04T09:57:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T14:57:03","slug":"sidney-daily-news-wright-state-nursing-students-use-augmented-reality-in-patient-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2020\/12\/04\/sidney-daily-news-wright-state-nursing-students-use-augmented-reality-in-patient-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidney Daily News: Wright State nursing students use augmented reality in patient assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wright State nursing students use augmented reality to better assess patients with virtual hearts, lungs and other internal body parts coming to life to enhance the learning experience.<\/p><\/div>\n

Wright State University nursing students have begun using augmented reality to better assess patients, with virtual hearts, lungs and other internal body parts coming to life to enhance the learning experience.<\/p>\n

It is part of a collaboration between the College of Nursing and Health and the College of Engineering and Computer Science that involves head-mounted augmented reality devices developed with a RAPIDS grant from the Ohio Department of Higher Education.<\/p>\n

Augmented reality is an interactive experience in which objects that reside in the real world are enhanced by computer-generated visual and auditory displays.<\/p>\n

The technology was demonstrated in the nursing college\u2019s Simulation Lab, which features sophisticated, high-tech mannequins capable of mimicking a vast range of illnesses and injuries.<\/p>\n

Buttons on the screen of the headset device enable users to control the scenarios they want to see, whether it be the heart, lungs, ribs or any combination of the three.<\/p>\n

As a nursing student straps on the headset and gazes down at the mannequin, virtual, lifelike lungs appear inside the chest expanding, contracting and whooshing as they fill with air. The application offers five different lung sounds, including bronchial, tracheal and wheezing. It can even simulate a collapsed lung. The click of a button adds a red, blood-pumping heart with a thunderous thump.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very convincing when you actually see everything in action,\u201d said Thomas Wischgoll, the grant program director and professor of computer science who wrote the grant with input from Sherry Farra, professor of nursing.<\/p>\n

The augmented reality technology is being used in a pilot study at Wright State led by Cindra Holland, associate professor of nursing. Ten nursing students from Holland\u2019s class have used the device so far.<\/p>\n

Holland said the technology is \u201cphenomenal\u201d and will help students apply what they\u2019ve learned in class and enhance critical thinking.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt helps them actually visualize what\u2019s going on inside the body when they are performing their different assessment techniques,\u201d she said. \u201cThey can actually see the intercostal spaces, which are the spaces between each rib. They can know exactly where to lay their stethoscope when they\u2019re listening for heart sounds, lung sounds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Holland said the device also can be used on a live person.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe overlay for the chest, the rib cage, the lung and the heart can actually be visualized over any person as well as a mannequin,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Holland thinks the technology can be used by students in many areas of nursing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve even dreamed about this being utilized by them in an OB course where they can actually see a baby inside the uterus,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Wischgoll said the augmented reality headsets are universal and could be used by students in many different fields.<\/p>\n

The headset\u2019s computer program, called Augmented Organs, was designed by Suneesh Menon, a computer science and engineering Ph.D. student who has worked on the technology for more than two years. Under the direction of Wischgoll, Menon first designed the program for use in surgery, converting information from CT scans of patients to 3D models and adding it to the application.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo surgeons in the OR will actually be able to visualize the patient\u2019s rib cage as though it\u2019s outside the body,\u201d he said. \u201cThis way they can see where the fractures are present before they even perform an incision on the patient.\u201d<\/p>\n

Menon is working to add more virtual organs, arteries and veins to the program for the student nurses.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are so lucky to have this partnership with Computer Science and Engineering because it is adding something that other universities don\u2019t have in their simulation departments,\u201d Farra said. \u201cIt\u2019s really going to take us to the next level.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marlene Stuber, clinical instructor and director of simulation in the College of Nursing and Health, was involved in all phases of the demonstration, including ensuring that all COVID-19 safety procedures were followed.<\/p>\n

Farra said the feedback from nursing students has been overwhelmingly positive.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s really going to enhance learning,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s one thing to listen with your stethoscope on someone\u2019s chest, but to be able to see what\u2019s going on inside is huge in terms of making links.\u201d<\/p>\n

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