RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Application of mixed reality to ultrasound-guided femoral arterial cannulation during real-time practice in cardiac interventions A1 Alonso Felipe, Miguel A1 Aguiar Pérez, Javier Manuel A1 Pérez Juárez, María Ángeles A1 Baladrón García, Carlos A1 Peral Oliveira, Julio A1 Amat Santos, Ignacio Jesús K1 Femoral arterial K1 Cannulation K1 Puncture K1 Interventional cardiology K1 Mixed reality K1 32 Ciencias Médicas K1 33 Ciencias Tecnológicas AB Mixed reality opens interesting possibilities as it allows physicians to interact with both, the real physical and the virtual computer-generated environment and objects, in a powerful way. A mixed reality system, based in the HoloLens 2 glasses, has been developed to assist cardiologists in a quite complex interventional procedure: the ultrasound-guided femoral arterial cannulations, during real-time practice in interventional cardiology. The system is divided into two modules, the transmitter module, responsible for sending medical images to HoloLens 2 glasses, and the receiver module, hosted in the HoloLens 2, which renders those medical images, allowing the practitioner to watch and manage them in a 3D environment. The system has been successfully used, between November 2021 and August 2022, in up to 9 interventions by 2 different practitioners, in a large public hospital in central Spain. The practitioners using the system confirmed it as easy to use, reliable, real-time, reachable, and cost-effective, allowing a reduction of operating times, a better control of typical errors associated to the interventional procedure, and opening the possibility to use the medical imagery produced in ubiquitous e-learning. These strengths and opportunities were only nuanced by the risk of potential medical complications emerging from system malfunction or operator errors when using the system (e.g., unexpected momentary lag). In summary, the proposed system can be taken as a realistic proof of concept of how mixed reality technologies can support practitioners when performing interventional and surgical procedures during real-time daily practice. PB Springer SN 2509-4971 YR 2023 FD 2023 LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/61646 UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/61646 LA eng NO Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research, 2023. NO Producción Científica DS UVaDOC RD 24-nov-2024