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）：我们的快速通道 SBIR 第二阶段的修订包括添加一个新的具体目标，该目标解决了该提案提交和随后批准后出现的重要技术考虑因素。这一目标涉及对我们在 SBIR 第一阶段开发的多核并行计算代码进行调整，使其也可以在图形处理器单元 (GPU) 上运行，这些代码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、最大限度地提高模拟的真实性、加速市场推广并拓宽产品的潜在市场。这项工作要求 SimQuest 额外聘请一名计算物理软件工程师来参与该项目，并资助一名研究生的工作，以将这些新技术进步应用到开放式手术模拟器产品中。 新的具体目标将实现 (1) 完成对现有计算代码的初步评估并重新构建它们，以利用基于 GPU 的计算的特定优势，(2) 开发在 GPU 上工作的新代码，(3) 评估和完善该实现以最大限度地提高效益，以及 (4) 将此代码与模拟器集成。 添加这一具体目标将使 SimQuest 能够探索一种新的可用方法来满足我们的产品需求，该方法有可能通过降低成本入门价格来扩大其市场采用率，并通过扩展的模拟功能加快其引入外科培训的速度。 公共健康相关性：这项拟议工作将产生的伤口闭合训练模拟器将满足众多美国医疗保健工作者群体的培训需求，从外科住院医生到护士，从急救医疗技术人员到军事医务人员。它将提供一种有效的手段，在不同地点广泛提供一致的最佳实践教学。其结果将是一支训练有素的医疗保健队伍，为公众提供更有效的护理。