Outline

This is a laparoscopic trainer for the fundamental skills and techniques of laparoscopic surgery, helping to improve the trainee’s skills like eye-hand coordination and cooperation of both hands, and giving them the opportunity to develop proficiency in instruments use and techniques such as transferring, threading, tension, cutting, suturing and knot tying. It comes with a fully integrated touch-screen computer, box trainer, set of 8 training modules and 4 laparoscopic instruments, offering an ideal choice for individual or team training.

Skills Gained

· Basic laparoscopic skills like transferring, threading, tension, cutting, suturing and knot tying

· Laparoscopic procedures training
· Eye-hand coordination

· Cooperation of both hands

· Grasping, dropping and improving a sense of depth

· Precision of movement

· Ambidexterity development – grasping, transferring and rotating the ring by coordinating both hands

Features

Hardware

1. The box trainer simulates a real abdomen with the abdominal landmarks. Its design is easy to place and replace the modules.

2.  12 precisely positioned instrument access points

3.  4 instruments: grasper, needle holder, scissors and dissector, with hand feel close to real-world instrumentation

4.  Instruments storage area under the box trainer, allowing up to 8 instruments to place

5.  The following training parameters are tracked with high precision sensors:

Ÿ Covered distance

Ÿ Speed

Ÿ Acceleration

Ÿ Trembling of hand

Ÿ Number of grip clamping

Ÿ Speed of grip clamping

Ÿ Whether the instrument movement in sight

6.  Full HD mobile camera with 1920*1080 definition & simulated 0°, 30° and 45° optic, camera allowing to be rotated 360°, stretched and locked

7.  The video adopts advanced network transmission technology, with zero delay tracking, friendly to hand-eye operation coordination training.

8.  8 Training modules: Circles Transfer, Threading, Tension, Dexterity (moving balls), Peg Transfer, Cutting, Suturing & Knot Tying, Anastomosis.

9.  3 fixed positions in the box trainer & easy placement of training modules with magnetic connections

10.  Lockable caster wheels for easy transport

11.  Ergonomic box with height adjustment (adjustable range between 760-1060mm)

12.  Rotatable box trainer to simulate different patient position

13.  Touch screen computer (23 inches) with already installed software.

Software

1.  Multi-user network for training in groups

2.  Three login modes: Instructor login (Instructor Unit only), trainee login and visitor login

3.  Training mode and free mode available:

Training mode:

Ÿ Instrument can be identified.

Ÿ Training parameters are tracked in real time. There will be alarms when the parameters such as covered distance, trembling of hand, number of grip clamping, movement speed, acceleration and operation frequency are out of range.

Ÿ Real-time parameter change waveform

Ÿ Automated training data recording, evaluation and analysis

Ÿ Video can be reviewed in different speed (quick & slow motion).

Ÿ Annotations and marks can be added or viewed on the time axis and the instructor can add their feedback in comments.

Ÿ Training records can be searched by time and keywords, and can be sorted by training time, training name, and evaluation score.

Free mode:

     Ÿ Practice freely within the set time without any prompt

     Ÿ Simulate realistic laparoscopic field of view and operating environment, helpful for quickly developing surgical skills

4.  Live video stream: The instructor’s operation can be displayed on the Learner’s unit in real time.

5.  Multi-screen synchronized monitoring (Instructor Unit only)

6.  Learning curve to show trainees left-hand, right-hand and overall performance. Discrete graph to display the scores distribution and broken-line graph to display the trend of scores

The Instructor Unit gives additional benefits:

Ÿ Admin access to all user accounts

Ÿ Option to create new training courses, and set training contents, training duration, instruments used, difficulty level, scoring standards and weights

Ÿ Possibility to hold a live transmission from the camera, for example from the instructor’s device to trainees’ devices

Ÿ Monitoring of learner stations (screens) at the same time. Each monitoring window can be added comments and marks.

Ÿ Evaluation and video playback can be exported all or parts. Training records can be deleted manually

Ÿ Training courses management including viewing, sorting, searching, editing and deleting

Ÿ Training contents can be edited in text, pictures, videos, etc.

Ÿ Key expert technique can be collected as evaluation criterion, supporting minor adjustment

Ÿ Option to add and edit custom modules