Visual Blood, a 3D Animated Computer Model to Optimize the Interpretation of Blood Gas Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Acid-base homeostasis is crucial for all physiological processes in the body and is evaluated using arterial blood gas (ABG) analysis. Screens or printouts of ABG results require the interpretation of many textual elements and numbers, which may delay intuitive comprehension. To optimise the presentation of the results for the specific strengths of human perception, we developed Visual Blood, an animated virtual model of ABG results. In this study, we compared its performance with a conventional result printout. Seventy physicians from three European university hospitals participated in a computer-based simulation study. Initially, after an educational video, we tested the participants' ability to assign individual Visual Blood visualisations to their corresponding ABG parameters. As the p

SUBMITTER: Schweiger G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10045057 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature