Simulation-Based Wound Closure Training System

基于模拟的伤口闭合训练系统

• 批准号: 7908489
• 负责人: Dwight Meglan
• 金额: $ 23.17万
• 依托单位: SIMQUEST INTERNATIONAL, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-05 至 2011-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7908489
• 关键词: Address; Adoption; American College of Surgeons; Caring; Clinical; Code; Computer software; Development; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Emergency Medical Technicians; Engineering; Environment; Evaluation; Face; Funding; Generations; Government; Hand; Health Personnel; Healthcare; Human; Imagery; Learning; Location; Marketing; Measures; Mechanics; Mentors; Methods; Metric; Military Personnel; Modeling; Nurses; Operating Rooms; Operative Surgical Procedures; Outcome; Patients; Peer Review; Persons; Phase; Physics; Price; Procedures; Process; Publications; Research; Research Infrastructure; Running; Simulate; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Software Engineering; Specific qualifier value; Speed; Structure; Surgeon; Surgical incisions; System; Time; Tissue Model; Tissues; Training; Work; animal tissue; base; cost; experience; graduate student; meetings; minimally invasive; parallel computing; prevent; programs; prototype; public health relevance; response; simulation; skills; skills training; success; tool; wound

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This revision of Phase II of our Fast Track SBIR consists of the addition of a new specific aim that addresses an important technical consideration that emerged after the submission and subsequent approval of this proposal. This aim involves adaption of our multi-core parallel computation code developed in Phase I of the SBIR to also run on graphics processor units (GPUs), which are now applicable to a variety of general-purpose scientific/engineering calculations. Use of GPUs has the potential to decrease hardware costs, maximize the realism of the simulation, accelerate market introduction, and broaden the product's potential market. The work requires that SimQuest dedicate an additional computational physics software engineer to the project and fund the work of a graduate student to apply these new technical advances to the open surgery simulator product. The new specific aim will enable (1) completion of an initial evaluation of our existing computation codes and re-architecting them to take advantage of the specific strengths of GPU-based computation, (2) development of new code to work on the GPU, (3) assessment and refinement of that implementation to maximize benefits, and (4) integration of this code with the simulator. Adding this specific aim will enable SimQuest to explore a newly available approach to meeting our product needs that has the potential to expand its market adoption through enabling a lower cost entry price as well as speed its introduction to surgical training through expanded simulation capability. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The wound closure training simulator that will result from this proposed effort will meet the training needs of numerous groups of US healthcare workers, from surgical residents to nurses to emergency medical technicians to military medics. It will provide an effective means of broadly providing consistent best- practices teaching in diverse locations. The result will be a better-trained healthcare workforce that will provide more effective care to the public.

描述（由申请人提供）：我们快速轨道SBIR的第二阶段的修订包括增加了一个新的特定目标，该目标解决了在提交和随后批准该提案后出现的重要技术考虑因素。这个目标涉及对SBIR I期在I阶段开发的多核并行计算代码的适应，还可以在图形处理器单元（GPU）上运行，这些计算现在适用于各种通用科学/工程计算。 GPU的使用有可能降低硬件成本，最大化模拟的现实主义，加速市场引入并扩大产品的潜在市场。这项工作要求Simquest专门为项目提供额外的计算物理软件工程师，并为研究生的工作提供资金，以将这些新的技术进步应用于开放手术模拟器产品。 新的具体目的将使（1）完成对我们现有的计算代码的初步评估，并重新构造它们以利用基于GPU的计算的特定优势，（2）开发新代码以从GPU上使用，（3）对实施的评估和改进，以最大程度地提高效益，以及（4）与该化合图集成了与仿真的集成。 添加此特定目标将使Simquest能够探索一种新的方法，以满足我们的产品需求，从而通过实现较低的成本进入价格，并通过扩展的模拟能力来介绍其对外科手术培训的介绍，从而扩大其市场采用。 公共卫生相关性：拟议的努力将造成的伤口封闭训练模拟器将满足从外科居民到护士到急诊医疗技术人员再到军事医务人员的众多美国医疗保健工作者的培训需求。它将提供一种有效的手段，以广泛的方式提供一致的最佳实践教学。结果将是训练有素的医疗保健劳动力，将为公众提供更有效的护理。