Medical Animation News

As part of an interactive, educational series sponsored by the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers recently created a medical animation depicting the mechanics of sleep apnea and a common treatment called "CPAP."

In order to deal with the rising number of heart attacks occurring in the U.S., new surgical techniques are being developed each year. One of the most promising, called percutaneous thrombus aspiration (PTA), recently appeared in a specially created 3D medical animation.

Have you ever heard of a left ventricular assist device (LVAD)? If you haven't, then you'll want to take a look at a recently created medical animation depicting one.

Heart valve problems are more common than many people realize, hence the importance of accurately explaining these potentially life-threatening conditions to patients who may have them. Recently, a team of cardiologists posted a special medical animation depicting mitral valve repair surgery.

Learning to successfully anesthetize a human being is no simple task, and many patients might add that suppressing one's fear of "going under" is just as tough. However, researchers have argued that there is at least one simple solution - 3D medical animation clips.

A newly developed vascular catheter may be able to minimize some of these problems, as a specially created medical animation explained.

While it may not have occurred to you to wonder how the female brain lights up during sexual excitement, plenty of neuroscientists have been eager to find out. And now they know. A recently published study used a 3D medical animation to illustrate what happens in the brain during climax.

Whether you are a doctor, medical student or layperson interested in the history of surgery, you may find fascinating a recently produced medical animation that depicts the process of an airway-opening emergency procedure known as a tracheotomy.

In order to overcome the limitations of in-person therapy, many researchers are moving to systems based on 3D medical animation.

Students of biology and cellular anatomy can learn quite a bit from medical animation clips about the structure of the brain's neurons - and, as it happens, so can scientists doing cutting-edge research.