Surgical Simulator

An Or thopedic Vir tual Reality Surgical Simulator

This paper describes a highly interactive virtual reality orthopedic surgery simulator. The simulator can section, reposition and join volume-represented structures. By these functions, the simulator allows surgeons to use various surgical instruments to operate on virtual bones for simulating every procedure of complex orthopedic surgeries.

Arthroscopy Skills Development with a Surgical Simulator: A Comparative Study in Orthopaedic Surgery Residents

BACKGROUND Surgical simulation has become increasingly relevant to orthopaedic surgery education and could translate to improved operating room proficiency in orthopaedic surgery trainees. PURPOSE To compare the arthroscopic performance of junior orthopaedic surgery residents who received training with a knee and shoulder arthroscopy surgical simulator with those who received didactic trainin...

Visual-spatial ability is more important than motivation for novices in surgical simulator training: a preliminary study

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether surgical simulation performance and previous video gaming experience would correlate with higher motivation to further train a specific simulator task and whether visual-spatial ability would rank higher in importance to surgical performance than the above. It was also examined whether or not motivation would correlate with a preference to choose a surgical spec...

Comparing Automatic Simulator Assessment with Expert Assessment of Virtual Surgical Procedures

This study focuses on the comparison of expert assessment of virtual surgical procedures through Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills (OSATS) with the automatic assessment and feedback provided by a surgical simulator for hysteroscopic procedures. The existing multi-metric scoring system of the simulator was extended to include hysteroscopic myomectomy. The original OSATS was als...

VR-in-a-Box: Surgical Simulator - Supplementing Surgical Training for medical students using a low-cost virtual reality simulator with real-time haptic feedback Final Report

Five really easy steps to build a homemade low-cost simulator.

AIM The aim of this study was to evaluate how simple it is to build a homemade low-cost simulator using a simple 5-step scheme. METHODS A scheme explaining how to build an endoscopic surgery simulator in 5 easy steps was presented to 26 surgeons. The simulator required a pair of scissors and easy-to-find materials. Its total cost was less than €35. The participants assessed the simulator usin...