News Archive
December 11, 2014
The FOCUS module has been updated to include pathology sections.
December 4, 2014
The Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy video has been launched.
November 14, 2014
The Total pancreatectomy video from the Toronto Video Atlas of Liver, Pancreas and Transplant Surgery has been launched.
July 31, 2014
The Type I choledocal cyst video from the Toronto Video Atlas of Liver, Pancreas and Transplant Surgery has been launched.
April 29, 2014
The Patient and Family Education module from the Toronto Video Atlas of Liver, Pancreas and Transplant Surgery has been launched.
April 25, 2014
The Standard right hepatectomy video from the Toronto Video Atlas of Liver, Pancreas and Transplant Surgery has been launched.
April 24, 2014
The Laparoscopic right hepatectomy video from the Toronto Video Atlas of Liver, Pancreas and Transplant Surgery has been launched.
April 15, 2014
The Living donor right hepatectomy video from the Toronto Video Atlas of Liver, Pancreas and Transplant Surgery has been launched.
March 28, 2014
The VIRTUAL Aortic Valve site has been launched.
January 21, 2014
The Standard left hepatectomy video from the Toronto Video Atlas of Liver, Pancreas and Transplant Surgery has been launched.
December 30, 2013
The Point of Care Ultrasound website has been launched.
December 20, 2013
Ex vivo reconstruction of posterior right portal vein video from the Toronto Video Atlas of Liver, Pancreas and Transplant Surgery has been launched.
September 25, 2013
Living donor right posterior sectionectomy video from the Toronto Video Atlas of Liver, Pancreas and Transplant Surgery has been launched.
September 18, 2013
Living donor left lateral hepatectomy video from the Toronto Video Atlas of Liver, Pancreas and Transplant Surgery has been launched.
June 14, 2013
Segment VIII resection video from the Toronto Video Atlas of Liver, Pancreas and Transplant Surgery has been launched.
June 14, 2013
TEE Standard Views module now available for iPad.
May 22, 2013
The Right nephrectomy video from the Toronto Video Atlas of Liver, Pancreas and Transplant Surgery has been launched.
May 6, 2013
The Extended left hepatectomy video from the Toronto Video Atlas of Liver, Pancreas and Transplant Surgery has been launched.
Jan 21, 2013
The Pancreaticojejunostomy technique video from the Toronto Video Atlas of Liver, Pancreas and Transplant Surgery has been launched.
Dec 7, 2012
The Segment VI/VII resection procedure video from the Toronto Video Atlas of Liver, Pancreas and Transplant Surgery has been launched.
Nov 19, 2012
The VIRTUAL Transthoracic Echocardiography website has been launched. This site provides teaching resources that can be used by medical educators in the classroom, and by trainees for self-study.
Jul 27, 2012
On July 27th, 2012, PIE projects won an Award of Merit in the Professional Animation: Instructional category at the 67th Annual Association of Medical Illustrators conference in Toronto, Canada. The winning project was a 3-minute excerpt taken from a Whipple procedure video, documented in the Toronto Video Atlas of Liver, Pancreas and Transplant Surgery.
Apr 20, 2012
Two new videos have been added to the Toronto Surgical Video Atlas; a Living Donor Formal Left Hepatectomy procedure, and a Extended Right Hepatectomy with in situ cold perfusion procedure.
Apr 13, 2012
The Awake Bronchoscopic Intubation website and the Advanced Cardiac Monitoring website have been launched.
Feb 9, 2012
An order form for Virtual Interactive Case System licenses has been added.
Jan 6, 2012
The Diagnostic Checklist website has been launched. The goal of this checklist application is to prompt physicians to consider a broad differential diagnosis for diagnostically challenging patients in primary care and to help resist the most common cause of missing a diagnosis: the physician's failure to consider it.
Nov 24, 2011
The Toronto Surgical Video Atlas website has been launched. This atlas will be used to teach surgical concepts for liver, pancreas and transplant surgery.
Oct 7, 2011
The Virtual Interactive Case System website is launched. The VIC System is used for creating simulations of encounters with patients in clinics.
Oct 5, 2011
The Lumbar Anatomy module has been updated and the Ultrasound Guided Regional Anesthesia of the Lumbar Spine module has been launched.
April 15, 2011
The Obstetric Anesthesia website is launched. This website will contain a broad range of content covering the basic principles of obstetric anesthesia, current research in obstetric anesthesia and how it guides practice at Mount Sinai Hospital, focused presentations on special issues in obstetric anesthesia, and the use of ultrasound in obstetric anesthesia.
April 15, 2011
The TEE Probe Simulation application is launched. The application simulates the actions you can take to adjust the position of the TEE probe and the ultrasound plane, and shows you the resulting position of the ultrasound plane in relation to a 3D model of the heart.
March 7, 2011
The VIRTUAL Bronchoscopy and Malignant Hyperthermia websites have been launched.
December 15, 2010
The Alternative Views application is now launched. The application features 19 non-standard TEE views illustrated with video and an interactive three-dimensional heart.
November 25, 2010
The Axillary Lymph Node Dissection website is now launched. The website features six 3D animated videos depicting the ALND surgery.
September 13, 2010
Spectral Doppler section of the TEE website online. The Spectral Doppler module demonstrates the assessment of structures using spectral Doppler during the standard 2D TEE examination. The normal spectral waveform for each valvular and vascular structure is accompanied by an anatomical slice of a 3D heart model displaying the spectral beam alignment. Video clips indicate the useful 2D views for optimal Doppler alignment.IRTUAL TEE Application is online now. This version features improvements to the interface and bug fixes.
Version 1.32 of the VIRTUAL TEE Application is online now. This version features improvements to the interface and bug fixes.
April 20, 2010
The Colour Doppler section of the Virtual TEE site is launched.
Version 2 of the Standard Views Application is launched.
Febraury 24, 2010
The VIRTUAL TEE application (version 1.09) is released. At each standard view, the three-dimensional heart model can now be rotated in multiple planes.
The VIRTUAL Weaning project page created. This page provides information about the project and a link to a demo.
December 18, 2009
The VIRTUAL TEE application (version 1.0) is released.
September 21, 2009
The TEE Standard Views application is now available in the following extra languages: Russian and French.
July 23, 2009
The TEE Standard Views application is now available in the following extra languages: Polish and Spanish.
May 22, 2009
Weaning from Cardio-pulmonary Bypass is currently in development. Demonstration of progress is now online.
May 13, 2009
Translations of two modules are available. The TEE Standard Views application is now available in the Japanese language (日本語), and the Control of Blood Pressure module is now available in the Chinese language (中文).
February 17, 2009
TEE Standard Views module (release 1.0) is made open to the public.
November 21, 2008
Testing has begun on the TEE Standard Views. When this is complete we hope to release it, sans passwords, to the world.
November 10, 2008
Updated version of fluid management module added. Includes stacked graph of total body water and individual line graphs of each fluid.
October 15, 2008
New cardiac valve animations added.
October 6, 2008
The TEE Standard Views Printable and Online Guides are available now on the VIRTUAL TEE site. This resource designed to help clinicians learn how the Standard TEE views relate to each other.
September 10, 2008
New VIRTUAL Liver site has been launched. It is the work of our newest team member Jodi Crossingham. A recent BMC grad, Jodi will be continuing to develop this teaching module.
July 17, 2008
PIE Projects Win AMI Awards
On July 17th, 2008, PIE projects won two of three awards given in the Professional Educational Interactive Media category at the 63rd Annual Association of Medical Illustrators conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. The Award of Merit winning projects were Michael Corrin’s application providing a three-dimensional heart model for visualizing the 20 Standard Diagnostic TEE Views, and Willa Bradshaw’s application simulating postoperative stabilization of cardiac patients in the ICU. The competition for these awards was from professional medical illustrators across North America, so the standards were very high.
Founded in 1945, the Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI) is an international organization composed of industry-leading medical illustrators, related professionals, and students of medical illustration. The AMI promotes the study and advancement of medical illustration and allied fields of visual communication, and strives to promote understanding and cooperation with the medical and related health science professions.
For more information on the AMI and the field of medical illustration, visit the AMI's main web site, www.ami.org.
New Grants
Two grants were funded by the Instructional Technology Courseware Development Fund this year: one for Virtual Weaning ($25k), a simulation of weaning from cardiopulmonary bypass (Principle Investigator: Max Meineri, Anesthesia) and the other for Virtual Ventilation ($25k), a simulation of patients requiring mechanical ventilation (Principle Investigator: Lisa Kenny, Critical Care).
July 8, 2008
New animations of the beating heart and aortic valve, as well as mitral valve and open aortic valve QTVRs made available on the Cardiac Valve page.
July 8, 2008
The Perioperative Patient Simulation updated to correct for inappropriate weight distribution in adults. New version also features cardiac output and body surface area variables.
June 8, 2008
Preliminary transparent rotatable heart made available. Read more...
April 2, 2008
The TEE Standard Views module launched. Full version made available for review and demo version made available to public.
February 19, 2008
Transesophageal Echocardiography Standard Views Module v0.4 is released. Read more...
February 19, 2008
Cardiac Anesthesia Fluid Management Module v0.1 released for preview. Read more...
October 22, 2007
pie.med.utoronto.ca launched.
September 06, 2007
Link to PIE web site circulated amongst departmental members for review prior to external launch.
August 07, 2007
Perioperative simulation - Version 0.81 put up in the simulation section of the Cardiac Anesthesiology site. Read more...
July 21, 2007
Cardiac Embryology - Version 1.02 put up on the development server. Read more...
May 07, 2007
Perioperative simulation - Version 0.8 put up in the simulation section of the Cardiac Anesthesiology site. Read more...
Cardiac physiology - Version 1.0 put up in the Cardiac Physiology section of the the Cardiac Anesthesiology site. Read more...
Cardiac Embryology - Version 1.01 put up on the development server. Read more...
