Is virtual reality training for lumbosacral freehand pedicle screw placement an alternative to conventional training?
Lukas Urbanschitz, Filippo Mandelli, Cordula Netzer, Philippe Cattin, Stefan Schären · 2025
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Description
Lukas Urbanschitz and four co-authors ask whether surgical residents can learn to place spinal screws inside virtual reality as well as on plastic bones. Four neurosurgery residents with under a year of spine experience each placed screws from the first lumbar to the first sacral vertebra in three rounds. Everyone started after self-instruction alone.
Before round two, one pair trained conventionally on a synthetic bone model and the other in VR; for round three everyone had both. After self-instruction, forty-four percent of screws were misplaced, worst in the VR-bound pair. After training, errors collapsed: one misplaced screw in the VR group and none in the conventional group. The pilot suggests VR training is a legitimate alternative for this skill.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Lukas Urbanschitz, Filippo Mandelli, Cordula Netzer, Philippe Cattin, Stefan Schären |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 22 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |