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November 10, 2015

Hollywood FX artists help doctors practice child surgery

by John_A

This image shows the opening flap made in the scalp to prepare for endovascular third ventriculostomy (ETV) surgery. The trainer, created by Fractured FX, will help train neurosurgeons to successfully execute the delicate surgery. (PRNewsFoto/Boston Children's Hospital)

Boston Children’s Hospital has formed an odd partnership with a practical special effects company to create more realistic surgery simulator models. Santa Monica-based Fractured FX is well acquainted with human anatomy (and gore), having worked on FX’s bloody American Horror Story. It also helped recreate surgeries performed in the early 1900s on the Cinemax Series The Knick. For its part, Boston Children’s Hospital has had a surgery simulator program for quite awhile, but decided it needed to up the realism quotient and give doctors a better “haptic” feel for patient’s organs.

Source: Boston Children’s Hospital

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