Virtual
Surgery
Games
Featured Game
Virtual Knee Surgery
Knee Op
These are surgery games for adults as much as they are surgery games for kids. You will learn some strange and wonderful skills in these games...
Hip Replacement Game
Hip Replacement Game
Cut out the bad bones and fit a new hip.
Brain Op
Deep Brain Stimulation
Your patient has bad shakes. You need to find the part of the brain that isn't working properly and install an electrical probe to make it work properly again
Hip Resurfacing
Hip Resurfacing Game
Instead of replacing the whole hip you reshape and replace the surface.
Lasik Eye Surgery Game
You need to use a laser to adjust the shape of your patients eye of that they can see properly.
You need to use a laser to adjust the shape of your patients eye of that they can see properly.
Eye Surgery
Facts About Virtual Surgery
When people talk about virtual surgery they mean surgery that is carried out in a world created inside a computer. Virtual worlds are accurate representations of real worlds and are usually 3-D and very detailed.
The games from Edhead's on this page try to be as accurate as possible and give a great idea of what real surgery is like.
Using Virtual Surgery to train Real Surgeons
Virtual training offers so many advantages in the medical field.
Edheads Virtual Knee Surgery Game
For one thing, patients are not the best guinea pigs to use for training. Losing any at all to newbie mistakes is seriously frowned upon.
So it is not surprising that a massive program is being constructed, at great expense, in the University of Texas to simulate a hospital emergency room. Everything from admissions to emergency operations can be created in the virtual environment and will be used extensively in the training of future doctors and other medical staff.
Research has recently shown that surgeons who regularly play video games are more proficient when it comes to performing various surgeries. Their patients recover more quickly and do better than the patients of doctors who never play games.
There have even been calls for surgeons to have facilities to ‘warm up’ on surgery games before going into the operating theatre.
So it is not surprising that a massive program is being constructed, at great expense, in the University of Texas to simulate a hospital emergency room. Everything from admissions to emergency operations can be created in the virtual environment and will be used extensively in the training of future doctors and other medical staff.
Research has recently shown that surgeons who regularly play video games are more proficient when it comes to performing various surgeries. Their patients recover more quickly and do better than the patients of doctors who never play games.
There have even been calls for surgeons to have facilities to ‘warm up’ on surgery games before going into the operating theatre.
