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Virtual reality helps South Florida boy avoid open-heart surgery, return to baseball field

MIAMI — A South Florida boy is back on the baseball field after doctors used virtual reality technology to treat a complex heart defect without open-heart surgery. Matthew, 12, was born with a ...
Healio

Q&A: Can virtual reality experiences calm patients’ nerves going into open-heart surgery?

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Virtual reality helped calm patients’ nerves before cardiac surgery. Holistic anxiety reduction may be ...
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Doctors use VR to repair South Florida boy’s heart without surgery

A South Florida boy is back on the baseball field after doctors used virtual reality technology to treat a complex heart defect without open-heart surgery.
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Thursday's child has far to go: One-week-old had heart surgery using 3D virtual reality technology

Theodore Evans was born on a Thursday. Three days later, on Dec. 8, 2024, as the family prepared to go home from Lakeview Hospital in Covington, Veronica Evans handed her son off to a nurse for his ...