Level EX brings video game-level graphics to virtual surgery mobile app

Virtual reality isn’t just for gaming anymore. The launch of Level EX has brought the top visuals of the video game industry into the medical field. The company has introduced a 3D virtual reality mobile application for practicing minimally invasive surgical procedures.

Level EX developed mobile apps that allow anesthesiologists, otolaryngologists, critical care specialists, emergency medicine physicians and pulmonologists to practice procedures via virtual reality.

Level EX's technology offers realism, enabled by the accurate simulation of human tissue dynamics, endoscopic device optics and moving fluids to recreate life-like surgeries. Virtual patient cases are modeled from actual surgeries submitted by physicians. Each case is vetted by physician experts with medical simulation training experience from the top academic hospitals in the United States.

The first mobile app to be released, Airway EX, gives physicians the platform to practice difficult airway cases. The app is free and available at both the Apple and Android stores.

"There are only so many hours for training and perfecting your skills outside of seeing patients," said Errol Gordon, MD, Director, Neuro ICU, Mount Sinai Hospital. "Level EX addresses roadblocks that hold physicians back by offering an easy-to-use, realistic mobile application that provides them with an edge in learning procedures through detailed patient scenarios. The use of the application enables physicians at all levels to maximize learning and improve surgical outcomes."