Consultation in the Metaverse: The doctor will see your avatar now (Preprint)

UNSTRUCTURED The metaverse has been trending recently in various sectors, from real estate to arts and healthcare. It promises to revolutionize the way medical care is being delivered by transforming medical visits and consultations. As virtual patient-physician consultations via avatars inside the metaverse remains a hypothetical concept, we attempt to illustrate the design of an optimal cardiovascular medical consultation and how it can integrate remote exam and parameters acquisition (blood pressure, pulse oxymetry, heart frequency, ECG) in order to achieve an optimal virtual consultation. This type of consultation provides various benefits but equally presents challenges that need to be overcome.