Virtual Veins - Feel The Difference

UK Haptics have produced the Virtual Veins System; a virtual reality training simulator allowing Healthcare Practitioners to acquire, develop and maintain the skills necessary to perform venepuncture in a range of realistic scenarios within a safe controlled environment. A growing number of healthcare practitioners across a range of disciplines for nursing, paramedics, the blood transfusion service to Sports specialists need to be able to gain confidence and competence. Virtual Veins also provides metrics to allow the measuring of performance in this procedure and as an aid to certification.

What you see is what you touch!

We all know about wysiwyg - well with Virtual Veins you can go that extra step and you can ‘feel’ what you see!

Modules

Virtual Veins is designed as an extensible collection of modules. Currently available we have Adult and Geriatric modules offering a range of clinical scenarios and including an Afro Caribbean model where the veins can be much more difficult to see.

     

Clinical Benefits

• Trainees can practice clinical skills until competent and confident.
• Evidence of learners competency provided by clinical metrics and summary reports.
• Ability to set targets and benchmarks for students to meet.
• Complements traditional training methods and allows trainers to target assistance to individuals with specific needs.
• Realistic ‘pop’ feedback when the needle is correctly inserted into the vein.
• Step through the procedure with prompts regarding correct order of tasks in the practise procedure .
• Intuitive interface to encourage practice and allow the building of good technique.
• Reporting mechanism to show progress and achievements to date.
• Patients and clients are not exposed to complete novices.
• Safe environment where mistakes can be made and learnt from.

Reporting

With the Virtual Veins reporting package each student generates their own learning record. The application stores the results from completed test sessions enabling the trainee and the course tutor or supervisor to view progress and performance over time.

As users work, the system stores current results for viewing during that session within the Clinical Skills Trainer. When the session ends those results are added to their training record in the database so that they can be accessed externally later. This ensures that the system is freed up for practise rather than reviewing and past results are viewable either from the UK Haptics website where all users can login or through their own organisation’s MLE where this has been setup to take input from the Clinical Skills Trainer.

Patients are often nervous faced with medical interventions or procedures of any kind, that nervousness can be eased dramatically by a clinician who is confident and competent in their skills.

There is research to show that in the US where litigation in the medical arena is second to none, that litigation is far less likely where the clinician is able to sense and empathise with the patient’s position Dr Stuart L Weinstein, University of Iowa (http://www.hospitalmanagement.net/features/feature743/ - 1st September 2006)

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