Jain Mohit J, Akbari Govinddas G, Umraniya Yogesh N, Nagar Shubham M, Patel Nilkumar R, Shah Rushit H, Patel Chintankumar B, Undhad Ravi P
Orthopedic Surgery, Smt BK Shah Medical Institute and Research Centre and Dhiraj Hospital, Sumandeep Vidyapeeth, Vadodara, IND.
Anatomy, Gujarat Medical Education and Research Society (GMERS) Medical College, Morbi, IND.
Cureus. 2024 Apr 3;16(4):e57554. doi: 10.7759/cureus.57554. eCollection 2024 Apr.
The idea of the "metaverse" is a relatively recent technological development. The industries that are most supportive of these developments include finance, entertainment, and communication. In addition to these, the healthcare domain has been added to the list of domains that benefit from the metaverse recently. Within the metaverse, research is being conducted on a wide range of medical topics, including conferences and seminars, surgical simulators, awareness campaigns, research projects, and much more. The metaverse is a flexible and highly customizable virtual digital platform that can be configured to suit specific needs, making it an adaptable instrument for medical advancement. These domains, together with their benefits and drawbacks, are thoroughly covered in this review article, which raises the discussion of the need for medical productivity. These studies have undergone a minimum amount of research and experimentation, and the findings are fair from an investigative standpoint. This review article's major goal is to make a provocative remark about metaverse domains and how they have already been used and might be used as an essential operational tool in the field of medicine in the future. Consequently, the objective of the present study is to review the current literature on post-COVID-19 pandemic development that connected the metaverse with the prevention and treatment of diseases, medical education and training, and expansion of available functionalities in research settings.
“元宇宙”的概念是一项相对较新的技术发展。最支持这些发展的行业包括金融、娱乐和通信。除此之外,医疗领域最近也被列入了受益于元宇宙的领域名单。在元宇宙中,正在对广泛的医学主题进行研究,包括会议和研讨会、手术模拟器、宣传活动、研究项目等等。元宇宙是一个灵活且高度可定制的虚拟数字平台,可以根据特定需求进行配置,使其成为医学进步的适用工具。这篇综述文章全面涵盖了这些领域及其优缺点,引发了对医疗生产力需求的讨论。这些研究的研究和实验最少,从调查角度来看,结果并不充分。这篇综述文章的主要目的是对元宇宙领域以及它们已经如何被使用以及未来可能如何被用作医学领域的重要操作工具发表引人深思的评论。因此,本研究的目的是回顾当前关于新冠疫情后发展的文献,这些发展将元宇宙与疾病的预防和治疗、医学教育和培训以及研究环境中可用功能的扩展联系起来。