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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Simulations Offer Safe, Effective Bronchoscopy Training

Challenge

• Improve patient safety
• Provide enough cases to achieve competency
• Accelerate bronchoscopy training
• Broaden experience for fellows, attending physicians, private practitioners, plus pulmonary and surgical staff

Solution – Provide Realistic Bronchoscopy Experience with Immersion’s Medical Simulator

• A robust system that stands up to heavy use
• Available 24/7
• Allows trainers to evaluate students before they perform on patients
• Allows staff to learn new minimally invasive procedures

Outcome

• Increased student satisfaction
• More exposure to procedures and more opportunity to gain experience in a wide variety of cases
• Improved patient safety with better training in endoscopy
• Secured an objective qualification tool for clinical procedures

Ft. Wayne Medical Education Program

Medical Simulation Training Spreads Skills to Rural Physicians

Challenge

• Increase training opportunities in endoscopic procedures for family practice residents
• Help residents to complete the American Board of Family Physicians curriculum
• Increase skill sets of rural doctors to avoid the need to refer patients to distant specialists
• Give residents more opportunities to perform endoscopic procedures

Solution – More Procedure Practice with Immersion’s Endoscopy AccuTouch® System

• Allows physicians to develop a “feel” for the procedures
• Provides a realistic feel for insertion and withdrawal, and visuals of the anatomy and pathology
• Residents learn how to navigate the tools and the steps of the actual procedure
• Easy to move around for demonstrations, practice sessions, or other training purposes

Outcome – A True Picture of Competency

• Post-simulation evaluation report allows residents and attending physicians to analyze the procedure objectively, assess overall performance, determine areas for skills enhancement, and define further training
• Provides details on the number of centimeters the scope is advanced, the amount of pressure applied to the side wall, and whether the student saw everything they were supposed to see
• Enables doctors to demonstrate proficiency that earns them hospital privileges

Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Medical Simulation Provides Realistic Training

Challenge

Improve bronchoscopy training for resident physicians

Solution – Immersion’s Endoscopy AccuTouch® System

• Provide the look and feel of actual procedures
• Rely on anatomic models developed from actual patient data
• Increase learning with force feedback transmitted through the flexible scope that mimics the actual feel of a procedure

Outcome

• Fast skills acquisition
• Better understanding of anatomy
• Assessment of motor skills and cognitive knowledge of procedure
• Increased resident confidence
• Reduced procedure time and patient discomfort

Philadelphia GI Training Group

Simulator Provides Faster Proficiency, Reduced Risk, and Increased Efficiency for Colonoscopy Training

Challenge

• Decrease time to proficiency
• Minimize patient discomfort
• Reduce procedural time and risk

Solution – A Better Way to Teach with Immersion’s Endoscopy AccuTouch® System

• Attending physicians can review progress of each novice clinician
• Trainees can access a virtual attending physician for context-sensitive help
• Allows practice on various techniques
• Perform without stress and without risk of patient complications

Outcome – Randomized Survey Results

• Simulator group achieved superior skill scores during the first and second months
• Six-month evaluation showed significantly faster time to cecal intubation
• Fellows gained confidence and a better understanding of how the colon might react in certain circumstances
• Enabled attending physicians to be more efficient without adding 30 percent training overhead to complete procedures

Medtronic, Inc.

Endovascular Simulator Enhances Patient Safety and Physician Training

Challenge

• Enhance patient safety
• Provide more experience in less time
• Reduce complications

Solution – Medical Virtual Reality with Immersion’s Endovascular AccuTouch® System

• Provide scenarios that represent everyday events
• Give experience with using fluoroscopic display  
• Use Immersion TouchSense® technology to simulate the forces encountered during the procedures
• Allow risk-free practice in navigating various endovascular guide wires and catheters

Outcome

• Taught physicians to recognize, respond to, and avoid procedure complications
• Provided more experience with potential complications than ordinary exposure
• Focused training on recurring problem areas
• Allowed independent practice and team training

Rush University Medical Center

Simulation Improves Training, Patient Safety, Program Efficiency, and Recruiting

Challenge

• Reduce frustration of gastroenterology fellows
• Enable more rapid progress
• Allow easier skills assessment
• Improve performance on human cases

Solution – A Shorter Learning Curve with Immersion’s Endoscopy AccuTouch® System

• Combines didactic and hands-on training
• Helps develop knowledge and skills by presenting progressively difficult anatomy and pathology
• Allows fellows to perform 30 or 40 simulated cases per week
• Fosters more individualized education
• Mimics the feel of a real colonoscopy

Outcome – A Five-year Study

• Reduced number of cases to achieve clinical competency in sigmoidoscopy from 30 to 15
• Allowed first-year fellows to make it to the cecum during their first case
• Enabled trainees to complete sophisticated maneuvers and apply behaviors they learned on the simulator without instruction from the attending physician
• Lowered patient discomfort
• Reduced procedural time
• Helped recruit fellows

Medtronic, Inc.

Simulation Helps Cardiologists Achieve Better Performance and Faster Competency

Challenge

• Support integration of classroom training on interventional cardiology skills
• Provide opportunity for richer skills development
• Increase number of Chinese doctors who could receive training

Solution – A Richer Training Experience with Immersion’s Endovascular AccuTouch® System

• Allow students to spend more time on skills training
• Expose trainees to more types of cases with increasingly difficult anatomic variations
• Simulate complications such as perforation, vessel rupture, and cardiac arrest
• Enable students to both practice basic principles and manage unexpected situations

Outcome

• Achieved better performance and less time to complete a procedure
• Required fewer procedures to reach competency
• Allowed doctors to repeat a case to learn how an alternative approach could lead to a better outcome