Endoscopy AccuTouch® System

This surgical simulator includes three types of endoscopic procedures: flexible bronchoscopy, upper and lower gastrointestinal flexible endoscopy. Endoscopic procedures are some of the most commonly practiced medical procedures today. The motor skills necessary to perform these are difficult to train and assess. The Endoscopy AccuTouch Surgical Simulator is a realistic, computer-based system for teaching and assessing motor skills and cognitive knowledge, enabling novices and experienced physicians to practice in a safe environment. Using real-time computer graphics, including anatomic models developed from actual patient data and a robotic interface device, force is transmitted through the flexible scope to provide tactile sensations mimicking the actual feel of a procedure.

Features/Benefits:

• Mannequin provides realistic force feedback, allowing the user to experience the feel of the real procedure.
  
• Didactic content and simulation allows novices to learn in an integrated environment.
  
• Content allows for independent learning, reducing the cost of supervision. Realistic images and audio feedback combine with touch to involve all the key senses.
  
• Case-based modules provide increasingly challenging patients to test progress. Digital virtual reality patients respond in a physiologically accurate manner adding to the level of realism.
  
• Modular design allows cost effective medical simulation of multiple procedures on the same platform.
  
• Endoscopes look, feel and handle exactly like the real ones.
  
• Surgical simulator is mobile for convenience in the training institution.

Surgical Simulation with the LapVR™ System

Designed by reviewing the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) curricula endorsed by the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons’ (SAGES), receiving input from surgeons at world renown institutions, and conducting in-depth research of training needs, the LapVR™ Surgical Simulator provides a platform for virtual reality training. The system’s hardware and software interface simulates laparoscopic surgery and provides virtual reality training in the essential skills required of laparoscopic procedures. The LapVR surgical simulator comes packaged as a complete system with selected software module(s) and height adjustable cart, monitor swing, foot pedal, camera, and tools.

Virtual Reality Laparoscopy

Surgeons from renowned institutions helped us tune the realistic, high fidelity forces that render lifelike medical simulations. A recognized leader in haptics, Immersion Medical uses TouchSense® technology to render these forces, helping individuals and teams acquire the motor skills and knowledge needed for laparoscopic surgery.

Laparoscopy Simulation Training

The LapVR Surgical Simulator’s recorded performance, precision, and error metrics allow medical institutions to assess individual and team performance. The simulator supports three fully instrumented tools — two trocars with interchangeable simulated tool tips and an endoscopic camera with 0, 30, and 45 degree lenses and high-speed optical tracking technology to accurately monitor tool motion. The LapVR virtual reality simulation system enables developers, researchers, and educators to supply realistic virtual reality training of laparoscopic abdominal procedures and skills.

Hysteroscopy AccuTouch® System

The first commercial simulation platform for hysteroscopy procedures, this system provides an immersive, virtual-reality experience that includes procedure-based content for cognitive and motor skills training. Using patented force feedback technology, the system lets physicians experience the appropriate resistance as they navigate through the cervical canal and uterus. Digital simulations of real-life procedures, complications, and tool/tissue interaction let clinicians learn hysteroscopy procedures in a realistic, risk-free environment.

Features/Benefits:

• Immersive risk free learning environment allows skills transference to real-patient training
• Allows for pre-procedural planning
  
• Fluid management monitor, adjustable by clinicians, directly correlates to uterine visualization and post simulation tracking for determining potential fluid overload
  
• Detailed metrics provide objective means of measuring cognitive and psychomotor skills
  
• Real time imaging of the 3D model offers virtual reality experience and reinforces anatomical knowledge
  
• Didactic content presents expansive reference to aid and deepen learning
  

Virtual Reality Medical Simulator

The virtual reality interventional catheterization CathLabVR™ Surgical Simulator (formerly the Endovascular AccuTouch® System) allows clinicians to practice endovascular procedures such as coronary and peripheral vascular interventions, cardiac pacing, and cardiac valve replacements.

Minimally invasive endovascular surgeries require careful attention to interpretation of the fluoroscopic image as well as the subtle feel transmitted through guide wires, catheters, and other interventional devices. The CathLabVR virtual reality system, which simulates the look and feel of actual surgeries, helps clinicians to develop skills prior to performing on patients and to maintain those skills throughout their professional practice.

Features/Benefits:

• Haptics – Patented force feedback technology integrated with visual and audio responses mimics the look and feel of an actual surgery.
  
• SmartCapture™ tool recognition – Enhances realism by automatically recognizing and responding to instrument insertion and removal.
  
• New Fourth Carriage – Enables the insertion and rotation of up to four instruments simultaneously.
  
• Longer Carriage Length – Allows more peripheral procedures to be simulated.
  
• Real-time Display – Fluoroscopic and cine images provide realistic rendering with emulation of digital zoom allowing evaluation of case-specific pathology and subsequent interventions.
  
• Accessible Carriages – Top opening lid supplies easy access to carriages.
  
• Direct Connectivity – All attachments connect directly to the device.
  
• Modular Design – Supplies cost-effective simulations of multiple surgical procedures.
  
• Computer-generated Models – Virtual models closely reproduce the anatomical variations and physiology of a variety of patients. The comprehensive physics-based surgical simulator reacts appropriately to the manipulation and deployment of actual diagnostic and therapeutic devices, providing practice in accessing and navigating through diverse anatomy. The appropriately responsive physiology is reflected in changes in vital signs, hemodynamic wave tracings, and patient responses, which enhance the decision-making process.
  
• Multiple Cases – A variety of cases with increasing difficulty call for the management of complications, allowing users to assess and perfect their skills. Measurable outcomes and metrics allow for objective assessment of users.