Virtual reality and fetal medicine — A systematic review

This work brings a Systematic Review on the use of Virtual Reality in Fetal Medicine in order to recover the state of the art on the use of Virtual Reality tools in Fetal Medicine and also which Fetal Medicine areas has been focus of Virtual Reality application. The keywords “Virtual Reality” and “Fetal Medicine”, “Virtual Reality” and “Fetus” were used in both Portuguese and English and the “And” operator, where 24 papers were found after using inclusion and exclusion criteria, from 2001 to 2014. It presents some statistics on studied items and uses the most relevant papers found in virtual databases, to present the results and benefits this technology can bring to the field of fetal medicine, especially in the analysis of diseases, abnormalities and birth defects, as well existing and used tools.