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The American College of Cardiology (ACC) is reporting that a virtual reality simulator is a good way for physicians to learn how to perform risky catheter procedures such as carotid angiography. The study, to be published in the May 2, 2006, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, investigated how a virtual reality simulator, the Procedicus Vascular Interventional System Trainer (VIST), a product of Mentice AB of Gothenburg, Sweden, influenced clinical performance of twenty clinicians. According to the press release, “cardiologists committed fewer catheter errors, while performing the virtual procedure in less time, and subjecting the virtual patient to less X-ray imaging and smaller injections of contrast agent during the final run compared to the first one.”

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