The Story of “Hyper-Realism”: From Hollywood to the Bedside
摘要
Facing the tyrannies of time and trauma, a third-year surgical resident has mere minutes to save the life of a victim of a motorcycle accident. Swiftly performing an emergency open surgery splenectomy, the resident’s attention turns to the hilum, where he identifies the splenic artery and veins, and dissects, but too close to the pancreas and clips its tail. The attending allows the resident to make this critical mistake. Why? Because the attending can stop the process, pause the vital signs, and take a timeout for a teaching moment. The patient is not human. The resident is operating on the world’s only hyper-realistic open surgery simulator.