Bimanual Haptic Simulator for Training Hand Palpation and Lumbar Puncture

Jose, James; Bhavani, Rao R.

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-4157-0_59

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“…No evaluation was carried out for this simulator. In [17] José et al developed a bi-manual haptic simulator for LP and palpation was presented. The system consists of two haptic devices and a VE which consists of a virtual needle, a virtual hand and a virtual body with the spinal column from L1 to sacrum (see Fig.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…One of the advantages of the mannequins over the virtual simulators is the possibility to train the palpation, which is an important step in the LP. This step has not been considered for most simulators, and just one [17] tried to replicate it with a haptic device, but in [13] authors used a mannequin, although it is not clearly stated that palpation is its objective.…”

Section: Commercial Simulatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Virtual lumbar puncture simulators: where are we today?

Ríos‐Hernández

Jacinto‐Villegas

Vilchis-González

et al. 2022

2022 IEEE Mexican International Conference on Computer Science (ENC)

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The lumbar puncture is an important procedure used in different specialties in medicine, such as neurology and anesthesiology. This procedure is considered complex, and the medical students believe they have not enough experience and confidence to perform it. That is the reason why some researchers are interested in proposing to create solutions to provide a better training of this procedure. This review aims to present a comparison between 10 virtual lumbar puncture simulators developed since 2000, where nine of them use a haptic device to represent a realistic procedure. In addition, the physical and virtual components are discussed, including the haptic device, the haptic algorithm, the virtual environment and the evaluations of the simulators. The contribution of this review is to recognize the limitations and strengths to identify some optimal requirements for the design, development, or selection of the software/hardware for the next generation of virtual lumbar puncture simulators.

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Section: Non-commercial Lp Simulatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Commercial Simulatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Virtual lumbar puncture simulators: where are we today?

Ríos‐Hernández

Jacinto‐Villegas

Vilchis-González

et al. 2022

2022 IEEE Mexican International Conference on Computer Science (ENC)

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“…Following this proposal, different authors developed virtual LP simulators with VEs that included a visual representation of the lumbar area and its tissues. However, there are some differences between these simulators, such as the integration of mannequins and a real needle 16 ; the integration of two haptic devices with the objective of simulating palpation 17 or providing real‐time collaboration 18 ; to increase immersion and interactivity some systems used head mounted display (HMD) for better visualisation of the VE 19,20 . Finally, some simulators focused on the realistic representation of the anatomy and created the virtual patient from computed tomography data 21–24 …”

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Development of a lumbar puncture virtual simulator for medical students training: A preliminary evaluation

Ríos‐Hernández,

Jacinto‐Villegas,

Zemiti

et al. 2023

Robotics Computer Surgery

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BackgroundLumbar puncture is an essential medical procedure whose objective is to obtain cerebrospinal fluid. Lumbar puncture is considered a complex procedure, mainly for novice residents who suffer from stress and low confidence, which may result in harm to the patient.MethodsThe LPVirSim, has been developed in four stages: i) requirements analysis through user‐centred design; ii) prototyping of the virtual environment and the haptic component; iii) preliminary tests with Ph.D. students and physicians using two haptic devices (Omega.7 and Sigma.7); iv) a user study where physicians evaluated the usability and user experience.ResultsThe LPVirSim integrates non‐technical skills and the possibility of representing different patients for training. Usability increased from 61.76 to 68.75 in the preliminary tests to 71.43 in the user study.ConclusionsAll the results showed good usability and demonstrated that the simulator arouses interest and realistically represents a Lumbar puncture, through the force and visual feedback.

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