Medical Simulators — Validation Studies

The studies shown here, which have been published in leading medical journals, document the effectiveness of our medical simulators in training healthcare professionals. These medical simulators provide a safe and effective virtual reality environment for avoiding harm to patients, developing skills, and increasing knowledge and judgment.

Medical Simulators Used in the Studies

• Endoscopy AccuTouch System, bronchoscopy medical simulation
• Endoscopy AccuTouch System, lower GI medical simulation
• CathLabVR™ System, (formerly Endovascular AccuTouch System), cardiac pacing medical simulation
• Laerdal Virtual IV System, a system with the combined intravenous access simulation technologies of Immersion Medical's first intravenous simulator, the CathSim® AccuTouch® System, and Laerdal's Virtual IV System

Bronchoscopy Simulation

• Assessment of Bronchoscopy Simulator
  American Journal of Respiratory Critical Care Medicine
  
• Virtual Reality Bronchoscopy Simulation: A Revolution in Procedural Training
  CHEST 2001
  
• Anesthesiology Residents Train Effectively on AccuTouch® Endoscopy Simulator
  American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) meeting poster, October 2000
  
• An Evaluation of a Virtual Reality Airway Simulator
  Anesthesia & Analgesia 2002
  
• Budgeting For Bronchoscope Damage in an Interventional Pulmonology Program
  Poster, CHEST 2001

Lower GI Simulation

• Evaluation and Validation of a Virtual Reality Based Flexible Sigmoidoscopy Trainer
  Gut 2001
  
• Endoscopic Simulator Enhances Training of Colonoscopy in a Randomized, Prospective, Blinded Trial
  Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
  
• The Effects of Computer Simulator Training on Patient-Based Sigmoidoscopy by Residents
  Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
  
• Efficacy of a Computer-Assisted Endoscopic Simulator in Training Residents in Flexible Sigmoidoscopy (poster)
  American College of Gastroenterology
  
• Computer Simulator Training Enhances the Competency of Gastroenterology Fellows at Colonoscopy: Results of a Pilot Study
  American Journal of Gastroenterology

Endovascular Simulation

• Virtual Reality Permanent Pacing: Validation of a Novel Computerized Permanent Pacemaker Implantation Simulator
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2001