Medical instruction using a virtual patient
First Claim
1. A method which comprises the following steps:
- electronically determining a medical condition for a virtual patient;
electronically simulating a medical examination on the patient; and
electronically administering at least one course of treatment on the virtual patient.
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Abstract
A virtual patient simulates the onset, diagnosis and treatment of all major medical conditions via a medical instructional console. The multimedia simulation, complete with video and audio, allows the patient to develop symptoms, answer questions, and undergo physical examination, monitoring, laboratory and radiological evaluation. The virtual patient responds realistically to medical interventions and visualizes medical ailments and treatments from “within”. Exemplary organs available for visualization include a beating heart, flowing blood, breathing lungs and a thinking brain. Medical conditions include clots forming and emblazing, lungs collapsing, and the heart being defibrillated. The virtual patient provides a complete human body heretofore impalpable, allowing a user to navigate throughout the human body, observing the organs in simulated motion during both normal and pathological physiology, while demonstrating the internal effects of medications and procedures on these organs.
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1. A method which comprises the following steps:
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electronically determining a medical condition for a virtual patient;
electronically simulating a medical examination on the patient; and
electronically administering at least one course of treatment on the virtual patient. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A system for indicating an electronic dynamic human body and simulating interactive patient care and treatment, the system comprising:
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an instructional database containing data for at least one medical condition having dynamic internal views and external views of organs and systems relevant to the medical condition and data for at least one patient profile;
an instructional processing device electronically connected to the instructional database, the processing device being configured to generate a virtual patient from the data of a selected patient profile and to simulate a medical examination and at least one course of treatment; and
an input control device electronically connected to the processing device to generate control signals interacting with the virtual patient and to alter the simulated medical examination and the simulated at least one course of treatment. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. An apparatus for medical instruction, comprising:
a machine readable medium containing instructions which, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations including;
generating a medical condition for a virtual patient; and
administering a simulated medical examination on the patient, the simulated medical examination having dynamic internal views and external views of organs and systems relevant to the medical condition. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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