Open AccessValidation of a virtual intracorporeal suturing simulator
Author(s) -
Yaoyu Fu,
Lora Cavuoto,
Di Qi,
Karthikeyan Panneerselvam,
Guang Yang,
Venkata Sreekanth Artikala,
Andinet Enquobahrie,
Suvranu De,
Steven D. Schwaitzberg
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
surgical endoscopy/surgical endoscopy and other interventional techniques
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.457
H-Index - 152
eISSN - 1432-2218
pISSN - 0930-2794
DOI - 10.1007/s00464-018-6531-3
Subject(s) - trainer , face validity , medicine , simulation , wilcoxon signed rank test , computer science , psychometrics , operating system , mann–whitney u test , clinical psychology
Intracorporeal suturing is one of the most important and difficult procedures in laparoscopic surgery. Practicing on a FLS trainer box is effective but requires large number of consumables, and the scoring is somewhat subjective and not immediate. A virtualbasic laparoscopic skill trainer (VBLaST©) was developed to simulate the five tasks of the FLS Trainer Box. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the face and content validity of the VBLaST suturing simulator (VBLaST-SS©).