Open AccessUse your phone to build a simple laparoscopic trainer
Author(s) -
Bernard H van Duren,
van Boxel G
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of minimal access surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0972-9941
pISSN - 1998-3921
DOI - 10.4103/0972-9941.141534
Subject(s) - trainer , medicine , triangulation , simple (philosophy) , phone , queueing theory , surgery , simulation , operations management , computer science , engineering , operating system , computer network , linguistics , cartography , epistemology , geography , philosophy
Simulation is becoming increasingly integral to surgical training with progressive restrictions on working hours. This paper describes a unique, cable free, laparoscopic trainer that can be constructed using items readily available to the average surgical trainee. The trainer described is not a substitute for surgical practice but, nonetheless, a useful tool in developing skills such as hand-eye co-ordination, triangulation and depth queuing.