Development of a Surgical Simulation Toolkit for Mitral Valve Repair Surgeries

Development of a Surgical Simulation Toolkit for Mitral Valve Repair Surgeries
Author: Piyusha Sanjay Gade
Publisher:
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2014
Genre: Mitral valve
ISBN:

It also includes tools for repairing the chordae tendinae, resecting a portion of the valve, applying MV material properties, boundary conditions and exporting these as an Abaqus (.inp) file where the simulation is carried out. The results of these simulations ultimately serve as biomechanical markers for identifying the best surgical method to be used.

Update on Life Cycle Strategy for New Implants and Medical Devices

Update on Life Cycle Strategy for New Implants and Medical Devices
Author: Marvi Sri Harwoko
Publisher: Smithers Rapra
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2012-10-31
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1847354416

With the emergence of new therapies for diseases which affect vital organs either partially or as a whole, the complexity of the parameter interaction and the variety of new discoveries opens many possibilities to implement these proposals into clinical use. Unfortunately, this diversity can also handicap an efficient design process.Therefore, a practical tool has to be developed, which in the early development stages, systematically supports the product and process optimization by preparing and providing information and knowledge.This book details such a methodology for systematizing the product design process, which uses a knowledge-based design process, a customer-oriented engineering process, and a business supporting life cycle model.This book describes how this methodology can be used as a product design guidance tool for supporting the development of a new implant. The methodology resolves the development complexity by using a series of logical steps and provides researchers with the means to assess these steps as soon as possible for anticipating and removing subsequent useless steps.

A Guide to Make Applications for Holistic Surgical Practice

A Guide to Make Applications for Holistic Surgical Practice
Author: Max Maizels
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2021-11-13
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3030773809

This book aims to enable healthcare workers in creating online learning tools for their specific surgical procedures. Providing an e-learning base by which healthcare workers can create customized procedural training materials, this book empowers practitioners to instruct their staff both within and across specific institutions or surgical areas. Supplying surgical leads with the tools required to inform their team members of what they need to know, what they will be expected to do, and when they will be expected to do it, the methods put forth in this book assist healthcare teams in working more closely and efficiently. Using the techniques this text describes, staff surgeons will be able to streamline their surgeries and support each of their staff members to perform their best. Focused on pediatric urological healthcare workers, each chapter demonstrates real-world applications for the development of codified training procedures. Supplemented with downloadable files for customization, the principles presented in this book apply to diverse specialties including but not limited to urology, orthopedics, obstetrics, and ophthalmology. A Guide to Make Applications for Holistic Surgical Practice: The Computer Enhanced Visual Learning (CEVL) Manual emphasizes practical approaches to the development of training methods for the codification of procedure performance within or across specific institutions or surgical leads.

Methodologies for the Analysis, Design and Evaluation of Laparoscopic Surgical Simulators

Methodologies for the Analysis, Design and Evaluation of Laparoscopic Surgical Simulators
Author: Pablo Lamata de la Orden
Publisher: Presses univ. de Louvain
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2007
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9782874630507

The problem addressed in this PhD thesis is how to offer an effective and efficient VR means of training in laparoscopic surgery. The question is to determine what makes it a useful didactic tool. This work is conceived to be a bridge between surgical tra

Development of Virtual Reality Tools for Arthroscopic Surgery Training

Development of Virtual Reality Tools for Arthroscopic Surgery Training
Author: Fadi Yaacoub
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre:
ISBN:

The minimally invasive approach of arthroscopy means less pain and faster recovery time for patients compared to open surgery. However, it implies a high difficulty of performance. Therefore, surgeon should remain at a high level of technical and professional expertise to perform such operations. Surgeon's skills are being developed over years of surgical training on animals, cadavers and patients. Nowadays, cadavers and animal specimens present an ethical problem also the practice on real humans is usually risky. For surgeons to reach a high level, new and alternative ways of performing surgical training are required. Virtual reality technology has opened new realms in the practice of medicine. Today, virtual reality simulators have become one of the most important training methods in the medical field. These simulators allow medical students to examine and study organs or any structure of the human body in ways that were not possible few years earlier. Similarly, the surgeon as well as the medical student can gain a valuable experience by performing a particular surgery with an anatomical accuracy and realism as it is actually performed in the real world. Thus, they can practice on virtual operation before they proceed and operate on real patients. In this thesis, a virtual reality training simulator for wrist arthroscopy is introduced. Two main issues are addressed: the 3-D reconstruction process and the 3-D interaction. Based on a sequence of CT images a realistic representation of the wrist joint is obtained suitable for the computer simulation. Two main components of the computer-based system interface are illustrated: the 3-D interaction to guide the surgical instruments and the user interface for haptic feedback. In this context, algorithms that model objects using the convex hull approaches and simulate real time exact collision detection between virtual objects are presented. A force feedback device, coupled with a haptic algorithm, is used as a haptic interface with the computer simulation system. This leads in the development of a low cost system with the same benefits as professional devices. In this regard, the wrist arthroscopy can be simulated and medical students can learn the basic skills required with safety, flexibility and less cost.

Surgical Scene Generation for Virtual Reality-Based Training in Medicine

Surgical Scene Generation for Virtual Reality-Based Training in Medicine
Author: Matthias Harders
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2008-03-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 184800107X

This reference book is for anyone involved in generating surgical training scenarios, as well as in VR-based training in general. It examines the main components required to define a scenario, in the context of surgical scene generation: Generation of the scene geometry; modelling of organ appearance; definition of biomechanical parameters. The book is the ideal reference for any reader involved in generating training scenarios, as well as in VR-based training in general.

Medical Devices

Medical Devices
Author: Martin Culjat
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0470549181

Addressing the exploding interest in bioengineering for healthcare applications, this book provides readers with detailed yet easy-to-understand guidance on biomedical device engineering. Written by prominent physicians and engineers, Medical Devices: Surgical and Image-Guided Technologies is organized into stand-alone chapters covering devices and systems in diagnostic, surgical, and implant procedures. Assuming only basic background in math and science, the authors clearly explain the fundamentals for different systems along with such topics as engineering considerations, therapeutic techniques and applications, future trends, and more. After describing how to manage a design project for medical devices, the book examines the following: Instruments for laparoscopic and ophthalmic surgery, plus surgical robotics Catheters in vascular therapy and energy-based hemostatic surgical devices Tissue ablation systems and the varied uses of lasers in medicine Vascular and cardiovascular devices, plus circulatory support devices Ultrasound transducers, X-ray imaging, and neuronavigation An absolute must for biomedical engineers, Medical Devices: Surgical and Image-Guided Technologies is also an invaluable guide for students in all engineering majors and pre-med programs interested in exploring this fascinating field.