title: Virtual patients in clinical medicine.
abstract: Virtual Patients are an essential component of medical virtual reality. Most work to date has been dedicated to virtual patients in surgery. However, virtual patients also have a strong potential in clinical medicine, where they can be used as visual interfaces to knowledge-based systems in various simulation and training applications. In this paper, we describe the implementation of a virtual patient in the field of cardiac emergencies and propose directions to extend the development of virtual patients towards the integration of multiple physiological sub-systems.
authors.affiliation: Virtual Systems Laboratory, University of Gifu 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu-shi, Gifu, 501-1193, Japan. al@vsl.u-gifu.ac.jp
authors.forename: Altion
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Simo
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cavazza
authors.forename: Ryugo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kijima
mesh_terms: D015510:Clinical Medicine; D006801:Humans; D016544:Patient Simulation; D014584:User-Computer Interface