Alyssa Giacalone, a physician assistant at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, uses the Stanford Virtual Heart. (Photo courtesy of David Sarno)
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How Virtual Reality Is Changing Cardiovascular Care
Virtual reality has been a staple of science fiction ever since Stanley G. Weinbaum wrote about high-tech goggles in 1935’s Pygmalion’s Spectacles. Now that virtual reality has become actual reality, it’s slowly but surely revolutionizing the treatment of heart disease and stroke.
