SBIR Phase I: Open Vascular Surgical Training System for Skill Acquisition and Evaluation

SBIR 第一阶段：用于技能获取和评估的开放式血管外科培训系统

• 批准号: 2035945
• 负责人: Hannah Eherenfeldt
• 金额: $ 25.35万
• 依托单位: Resuture Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-02-15 至 2022-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2035945&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Open; Vascular; Surgical

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to streamline surgical training and reduce the burden of surgical complications by creating a device that can train and evaluate surgeons. The proposed project will demonstrate the feasibility of progressive skills education and quantitative assessment on a simulated open surgery system. This project will develop a high-fidelity modular system and synthetic vasculature to effectively train surgeons in open vascular surgery.This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will advance development of an educational tool to support surgical training. The device must provide progressive skills education, expose users to a comprehensive range of open surgical procedures, and provide objective feedback metrics. The proposed research will first investigate the feasibility of developing a variety of simulated vascular components, including those with abnormalities, and subsequently integrating them into the benchtop system. The synthetic training models will be evaluated by practicing surgeons using a bipolar scaling method. The mechanical properties of the synthetic vascular tissue will be measured and compared to live tissue. This project will additionally develop components to measure surgical performance. The metrics will be evaluated in a pilot study of a panel of experienced and inexperienced surgeons. The anticipated results are a synthetic vascular material with similar mechanical properties as live tissue, surgical models that are validated as realistic by a panel of expert surgeons, and a system with sensors and components that are capable of differentiating between user skill levels.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是通过创造一种可以培训和评估外科医生的设备来简化外科培训和减少手术并发症的负担。建议的项目将在模拟开放手术系统上演示渐进式技能教育和定量评估的可行性。该项目将开发一个高保真的模块化系统和合成血管系统，以有效地培训外科医生进行开放血管手术。这项小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目将推进一种教育工具的开发，以支持外科培训。该设备必须提供渐进式技能教育，让用户接触到全面的开放式外科手术，并提供客观的反馈指标。拟议的研究将首先研究开发各种模拟血管组件的可行性，包括那些异常的血管组件，然后将它们集成到台式系统中。综合训练模型将由执业外科医生使用双极缩放法进行评估。将测量合成维管组织的机械性能，并与活组织进行比较。该项目还将开发测量手术效果的组件。这些指标将在一组有经验和没有经验的外科医生的试点研究中进行评估。预期的结果是一种与活组织具有相似机械性能的合成血管材料，由专家外科医生小组验证为现实的手术模型，以及具有能够区分用户技能水平的传感器和组件的系统。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。