Virtual reality (VR) technology, which is very popular in the world of entertainment, is now showing the way to corona treatment as well. COVID-19 treatment has caused a serious crisis for doctors, nurses, and health workers around the world. So, inexperienced people are now being used to deal with that crisis. The call is from ordinary educated people to retired experienced doctors or nurses in other fields.
It is learned that some hospitals have taken the initiative to train thousands of doctors and nurses through simulations of virtual reality. Retired doctors from other departments including surgery and neurology are also being involved in the initiative so that they too can serve corona patients.
More than 300 other doctors at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles have learned through virtual reality how to check a patient’s symptoms, how to treat a patient in protective gear. Russell Metcalfe-Smith, the hospital’s department director, said: “It’s like you’re treating a patient. In this way we are training the health workers in the treatment of COVID-19. As a result of this technology, we are able to train according to the social distance. It is very useful at this time.’’
Basically, virtual reality is not something real, but it is a fantasy that is as real as reality. It is based on computer and simulation theory. In virtual reality, work is done by creating three-dimensional images. As a result, a person will get the real feeling of what he wants to do in his mind or where he wants to go.
Even the sound, the atmosphere, the scene, the excitement will make you forget everything from the real world. Through medical virtual reality, a person is trained in a world of imagination in a hospital environment. Although it is not real, he gets the real feeling.
Doctors and nurses in hospitals in the United States are now being given specific training on COVID-19. Such as how to properly put on and open the protective gear, how to use the ventilator. New guidelines on CPR and life support and diagnostic management etc. Since there is a shortage of human resources at the moment, VR technology is being used to fill that gap.
