Training Surgical Residents With a Haptic Robotic Central Venous Catheterization Simulator

Learning Surgical Skills with Simulator Training: Residents’ Experiences and Perceptions

Simulator training is becoming a more integral part of surgical psychomotor skills training for video-assisted operating techniques, which need to be practiced repeatedly and systematically. Studies concerning the implementation, realization, and potentiality of simulator training programs for hospital surgeons are needed. Also, trainees’ expectations of training, and the feasibility of combini...

VR-in-a-Box: Surgical Simulator - Supplementing Surgical Training for medical students and residents using a low-cost virtual reality simulator with real-time haptic feedback

I. INTRODUCTION In recent years, there has been a verifiable increase in the use of virtual reality (VR) simulation technology for clinical purposes. Although results are varied, studies have shown evidence that the use of VR in surgical training results in improvement in practicing surgical skills. Unfortunately, such simulators are expensive and thus are not targeted for use by student popula...

The unnecessary application of central venous catheterization in surgical patients

Hydrothorax after central venous catheterization.

Three patients are described who developed hydrothorax as a complication of central venous catheterization. Respiratory distress associated with physical signs of fluid in the chest should arouse suspicion that the venous catheter has perforated the wall of the vein.The complications of central venous catheterization are reviewed and three cases of hydrothorax are presented. Comments on the pre...

A review in emergency central venous catheterization

Central venous catheterization is widely used in the emergency setting. This review aims to assess central venous catheterization from the perspectives of types of catheters, sites of insertion, and techniques. In emergency conditions, non-tunneled catheters are preferred because the technique for its insertion is not complicated and less time-consuming. The size of catheter depends on the purp...