Saving lives by showing defibrillators nearby

What would you do if a person standing next to you fell suddenly? First, your mind would be blank for a few milliseconds, and then thoughts would rush through your head, and no matter whether you would think of an ambulance, a doctor, or mom for help, you would definitely reach for your phone. And when you take out your phone, you find that there is an app that is specifically designed for this situation. 

By downloading the Layar reality browser combined with the AED4E app you can easily find ways to solve situations like these. It enables the users to add places where automated external defibrillators or AEDs are located and this database can be accessed through this application.

Patients can better describe their symptoms

Don’t you think patients often struggle when they have to describe their symptoms to their doctors accurately? In some cases, people often find themselves overreacting to a medical situation or on the contrary, minimize the problem. 

For example, in ophthalmology, Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR)  might be the answer for a patient’s study. The app might demonstrate the impact of AMD or cataracts and thus aiding patients to understand their symptoms and their actual medical state.

Aiding nurses to easily find veins 

As Augmented Reality overlays digital images and information onto the real-world view, it is ideally suited to visualize medical information like overlaying anatomical data onto the patient in real life. This can definitely help clinicians carry out procedures in a faster and more accurate way.

By utilizing XR technology in healthcare, the lives of both nurses and patients can be made easier. This futuristic technology can be easily integrated with a handheld scanner that projects over the skin and shows nurses and doctors precisely where veins are in the patient’s body.

XR to improve wellbeing

The positive effects of meditation and mindfulness on overall health and wellbeing are well documented. As a matter of fact, there are plenty of meditation apps that have sprung up to help people meditate and de-stress, often using relaxing sounds and guided instructions. 

The interesting part is that some of these solutions are incorporating Virtual Reality (VR)  to make guided meditations more immersive. 

The guided meditation app comes with more than 100 meditations in a beautiful virtual setting, like a beach, a forest, and even the top of a mountain. While gentle audio instructions guide you through various breathing exercises, you can also put on a VR headset and use a VR meditation app to completely immerse yourself in the experience. 

Medical education

This is another use of XR technology which is in medical education. Schools and universities can use Augmented Reality (AR) to improve the learning experience of medical students with anatomical holographs. These allow students to learn about the composition of the human body by interacting with a 3D model superimposed onto the real world. 

XR can enhance therapeutic treatments and surgeries 

Virtual Reality (VR) is proving to have some serious therapeutic benefits. Among other things, it can also be used to immerse patients in more relaxing and comfortable simulated environments. The environment that helps to calm them before or even, at times during treatment, reduces pain and generally improves the experience of being in a clinical setting or hospital. 

Not just that, VR has also proven to help patients stay calm and relaxed during surgery.

Product Demonstration

Utilizing extended reality in healthcare can undoubtedly lead to a better understanding of how new medical products or treatments work. Providing effective communication between pharmaceutical companies and healthcare professionals is a key factor in increasing sales. 

In the upcoming years, medical sales representatives will use AR and VR to create immersive and interactive product demonstrations and enhanced e-detailing of their upcoming products.

Extended reality (XR) device types, details, and clinical applications