Physics-based simulator to teach hands-on vascular surgical skills

基于物理的模拟器教授血管外科手术技能

• 批准号: 8524316
• 负责人: Julien Lenoir
• 金额: $ 30.36万
• 依托单位: SIMQUEST INTERNATIONAL, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-16 至 2014-06-15
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8524316
• 关键词: Address; Adopted; Affect; American; American College of Surgeons; Anastomosis - action; Area; Blood Pressure; Blood Vessels; Blood flow; Complex; Cost Savings; Development; Dissection; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Ensure; Evaluation; Extravasation; Facial nerve structure; Feedback; Foundations; Future; Learning; Life; Maintenance; Methods; Operative Surgical Procedures; Oral; Outcome; Patients; Performance; Phase; Physics; Procedures; Quality of life; Research; Safety; Science; Simulate; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Solutions; Structure; Surgeon; Surgical Specialties; Surgical incisions; Surgical sutures; System; Time; Tissues; Training; Training Support; United States National Institutes of Health; Work; base; cost; design; improved; innovation; instructor; interest; maxillofacial; medical specialties; meetings; minimally invasive; new technology; pressure; programs; prototype; public health relevance; simulation; skills; skills training; technology/technique; tool

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): SimQuest LLC proposes to develop a physics-based vascular surgery skills training simulator. Although a number of endovascular skills training simulators exist, there are no simulators to teach the large body of non-minimally invasive procedures that vascular surgeons must master. This Phase I work will advance the state of the science in surgical education for vascular surgery by building from our prior simulation efforts in non-minimally invasive surgery to establish a technical foundation for a simulator that will enhance training by supporting the curriculum of the Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery (APDVS). This significant step forward in surgical education will enhance outcomes of patients requiring non- minimally invasive vascular procedures. The Specific Aims of this Phase I proposal are designed to address the essential technical areas that must be mastered to provide an effective simulation of a broad class of vascular surgery procedures. The four Specific Aims are to (1) simulate the isolation of vessels from surrounding tissue, (2) implement a general approach to computing how vascular clamping affects tissue and blood flow, (3) develop a simulation of vascular anastomosis that allows appropriate computation of pressure and leakage based on suture placement, and (4) develop a prototype curricular structure for use in conjunction with the APDVS curriculum to illustrate how an approach similar to that used by SimQuest for the American College of Surgeons (ACS) surgical curriculum can work. SimQuest's vascular surgical skills simulator will be uniquely suited to training surgeons in the complex procedures needed for resolving vessel-based blood-flow issues. When complete, this simulation will be an integral part of the curriculum of future vascular surgeons, and will pave the way for a more effective means for new technology and techniques-facilitated advancements to be adopted into existing practice.

描述（由申请人提供）：SimQuest LLC拟开发一种基于物理学的血管手术技能培训模拟器。尽管存在许多血管内技能培训模拟器，但没有模拟器来教授血管外科医生必须掌握的大量非微创手术。第一阶段的工作将推进血管外科手术教育的科学状态， 非微创手术，为模拟器建立技术基础，通过支持血管外科项目主任协会（APDVS）的课程来加强培训。外科教育的这一重大进步将提高需要非微创血管手术的患者的结局。本阶段I提案的具体目标旨在解决必须掌握的基本技术领域，以提供广泛类别血管外科手术的有效模拟。四个具体目标是（1）模拟血管与周围组织的隔离，（2）实施计算血管夹闭如何影响组织和血流的一般方法，（3）开发血管吻合模拟，允许基于缝线放置适当计算压力和泄漏，和（4）开发一个原型课程结构，用于与APDVS课程结合使用，以说明类似于SimQuest用于美国外科医师学院（ACS）外科课程的方法如何工作。SimQuest的血管手术技能模拟器将是唯一适合培训外科医生， 解决血管血流问题所需的复杂程序。完成后，这种模拟将成为未来血管外科医生课程的一个组成部分，并将为新技术和技术促进的进步更有效地应用于现有实践铺平道路。