Motivational Training for Essential Laparoscopic Skills
- Train in a stimulating abstract environment designed to develop and perfect basic laparoscopic skills
- Choose between training with your left or right dominant hand, in front or back working positions, and with 0° or 30° optic
- Become proficient in camera navigation, eye-hand coordination, clip placement, development of bimanual and ambidextrous psychomotor skills
- The LaparoS™ Essential Skills module offers training cases inspired by FLS (Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery) to prepare for the assessment of the 5 key skills: bimanual coordination, pattern cutting, loop ligation, needle manipulation and intracorporeal knot tying
- Objective feedback metrics provide you with proficiency-based feedback
The Perfect Setup to Train Ambidexterity
- Learn transferable key skills through exercises in an abstract environment designed to engage both the dominant and non-dominant hand
- Benefit from authentic haptic interactions and real feel of the instruments
- Efficiently improve your ambidextrous motor skills with a variety of training cases, including Image Centering & Lifting, Grasping & Bimanual Coordination, Ligating Loop Placement, Needle Passing and Needle Insertion
Essential Skills for Laparoscopic Suturing
- Follow a step by step learning approach of key manual skills for laparoscopic suturing
- Train needle rotation, positioning and manipulation using original needle holders
- Acquire different laparoscopic knot tying techniques: half knot, square knot and surgeon’s knot
- Train both with your dominant and non-dominant hand with front and backhand technique
Laparoscopic Simulation Based on Validated Concepts
LaparoS™ is based on validated studies which demonstrate simulation as a valuable training and assessment tool in laparoscopy, complemented by long-term cooperation with a group of leading laparoscopic surgeons in Switzerland and internal expertise from Dr. Martina Vitz, the co-author of several studies leading VirtaMed’s Training & Education team.
VR is more likely to be successful if it is systematically integrated into a well-though-out education and training program which objectively assesses technical skills improvements proximate to learning experience.
- Gallagher, A. G., Ritter, E. M., Champion, H., Higgins, G., Fried, M. P., Moses, G.,Satava, R. M. Virtual Reality Simulation for the Operating Room. Proficiency Based Training as a Paradigm Shift in Surgical Skills Training. Annals of Surgery, 2005, 241(2), 364–372.
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