SAM - Simulation Airways Models

Abstract

SAM is a digital and material tool for advanced training in interventional pneumology. This idea combines the design culture to the specialized disciplines of pulmonology. The research aims at achieving three major design goals such as interactivity, performance and traceability of educational processes. SAM consists in a navigable 3D model of the human airways. The process facilitates the pulmonary physicians in their didactic training course and in their skills' acquisition through realistic simulation. These skills are traced and then evaluated in different simulations such as clinical case histories. SAM includes video animation, application of augmented reality to the model, a design model for dummies and a mediastinal and bronchial plastic model with support base. All these systems are managed by a specific App. SAM can be applied to each apparatus and pathology and it's a modular and modifiable tool that could be applied for any training needs and situation.