Arthroplasty Essay

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Serious Games have been used in medical training and treatment of various illnesses. Sabri et al. created in 2010 a serious game for knee replacement surgery procedure. Total knee replacement or total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is a surgical procedure whereby the painful arthritic knee joint surfaces are replaced with metal and polyethylene components. They substitute bone and cartilage providing patients with painful, deformed, and unstable knees pain relief and improvement in function The serious game described permits training of orthopaedic surgical procedures to orthopaedic surgical residents outside the operating room with a multiplayer modality. The game was designed to evaluate if a serious gaming approach will enhance complex surgical skill acquisition. Animations and videos provide guidance to the users about the procedures. …show more content…
Qin et al. realized a serious game to train blood management in orthopaedic surgery context to orthopaedic surgeons. The game uses a haptic interface and is structured in three parts. The first two parts are "Stopping the Fountains" games. The first consists of a fountain placed on a plane and the second of a fountain placed on a curved surface. The user should stop the fountain water loss using a virtual tool. These two tasks permit the users to adapt to the 3D environment and develop the required hand-eye coordination using the haptic interface. The third part of the game is the orthopaedic-surgery game. In this part, three modalities were provided: training mode, time attack mode, and collaborative mode. The training mode is designed to teach trainee the correct steps to execute the procedure. The player has to complete the assigned