Current Clinical and Educational Uses of Immersive Reality in Anesthesia: Narrative Review

Andrew Fleet   ¹ , PhD ;   Lilia Kaustov   ¹ , MSc, PhD ;   Elio BR Belfiore   ¹ , MD ;   Bill Kapralos   ² , MSc, PhD ;   Clyde Matava   ^{3, 4} , MBChB, MHSc, MMed ;   Julian Wiegelmann   ^{1, 4} , MHI, MD ;   Peter Giacobbe   ^{5, 6} , MSc, MD ;   Fahad Alam   ^{1, 4} , MHSc, MD

¹ Department of Anesthesia, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

² maxSIMhealth Group, Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, ON, Canada

³ Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁴ Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁵ Department of Psychiatry, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁶ Harquail Centre for Neuromodulation, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada