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Surgery-Simulating Dummy Allows Doctors To Develop Skills

Posted by samzenpus on from the cut-away dept.

techgeek0279 writes "The Cybram 001 Cybernetic Brain Artery Model simulates the functioning of the cerebral blood vessels, so doctors can practice performing actual operations on the brain. Developed through joint research by Fuyo and the Saitama Medical University International Medical Center, the life size plastic body contains a blood vessel system that runs from the groin to the cerebral artery, as well as a circulation pump and pressure control circuit used to realistically simulate blood flow and pressure in the body."

30 comments

  1. Sounds good and all. by phazemstr · · Score: 5, Funny

    But does it give an electric shock when they mess up?

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    1. Re:Sounds good and all. by Samantha+Wright · · Score: 1

      It brings me great joy to know that the first (legitimate) comment hit on exactly what I was thinking. Is it water on the knee?!

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    2. Re:Sounds good and all. by Black+Parrot · · Score: 2, Funny

      But does it give an electric shock when they mess up?

      No, the nose lights up, a buzzer sounds, and you lose a turn.

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    3. Re:Sounds good and all. by The+Evil+Atheist · · Score: 1

      The trainees get tasered.

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    4. Re:Sounds good and all. by ShieldW0lf · · Score: 1

      Confidence born in a simulator coupled with a lack of experience working with meat. Doesn't sound like someone I want cutting into me.

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    5. Re:Sounds good and all. by jellomizer · · Score: 1

      Don't touch the sides... Butter fingers.

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    6. Re:Sounds good and all. by mcgrew · · Score: 1

      I would imagine that they use the simulatore before they get to cut on cadavers. In any case, I wouldn't want my doctor to be right out of med school.

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    7. Re:Sounds good and all. by Samantha+Wright · · Score: 1

      Nah, you'd never get 'lack of experience working with meat'. Med school is all about spending forever cutting up corpses. This is just supplementary to that.

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  2. The groin and brain are closely connected by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    " ... a blood vessel system that runs from the groin to the cerebral artery ... "

    Well, some people do seem to think with their ... groin.

  3. life & death by gl4ss · · Score: 1

    remember that game? did anyone ever get far in it? I was quite young when playing and didn't have a manual so maybe that's why all the patients tended to die..

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    1. Re:life & death by Thanshin · · Score: 4, Funny

      remember that game? did anyone ever get far in it? I was quite young when playing and didn't have a manual so maybe that's why all the patients tended to die..

      It wasn't a game. Your father was an Ender fan and you were being trained to be the world's greatest surgeon.

      He stopped after you killed your first three hundred patients.

    2. Re:life & death by Joe_Dragon · · Score: 1

      that game also had a pager chat with phone numbers that was used for copy protection.

  4. Super by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It looks amazing. Surely it is very useful for the doctors.
    Cardboard Boxes

  5. When I was a kid... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 1

    We were too poor to buy fancy robots, so I had to play doctor with the girl next door.

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    1. Re:When I was a kid... by sycodon · · Score: 2

      Hannibal? Is that you?

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  6. I had one as a kid... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It rocked.

  7. some history by Mantaray · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I was reading an article just yesterday about efforts to build similar systems in Victorian times... pretty interesting:

    http://wilsonquarterly.com/article.cfm?AID=2056

  8. Cheaper than livestock by tomhath · · Score: 1

    Which is what medical students start out practicing surgery on. The more practice using the instruments the better skilled they'll be when they finally get to humans.

  9. Good thing we -now- have surgery-free brain cures by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    At (only a) -first- glance, that simulator didn't seem to be all that realistic in appearance.

    Maybe that's a good thing...

    At least for those with Brain Cancer, for which (we're told) FDA has given its "Good to Go" (on human patients) for the use of Electrical Field Treatments for Brain Cancer.

    In fact, the FDA also described the treatment as one that [ -unlike- chemo, radiation & / or surgery therapies] does not reduce the patient's Quality of Life.

    Keep an eye on future research on this treatment's potential to resolve Breast & other cancers located in the body's trunk region.

    (I don't recall if it was mentioned in a TED talk or on Forra.tv)

  10. Combat medic training "Cut Suit" by couchslug · · Score: 2

    Because not all surgery is in a nice clean operating room. I'm not affilitated with the company, I just think it's way cooler than the simple moulage training I had back in the day.

    http://www.strategic-operations.com/products/cut-suit

    "Medical Procedures Currently Available on the Cut Suit:
            Extremity tourniquet application and hemorrhage control
            Extremity arterial hemorrhage clamping
            Needle and Surgical Chricothyroidotomy
            Bilateral Chest Needle Thoracentesis
            Surgical Chest Tube Thoracotomy
            Surgical incisions to the thoracic and abdominal cavity with venous bleeding
            Thoracotomy & intra-thoracic exploration and hemorrhage control of gross organ structures
            Laporotomy & intra-abdominal exploration and hemorrhage control of gross organ structures
            Suturing or stapling of gross organs & skin in all locations
            Urinary catheterization and bladder tap
            Peripheral IV access"

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  11. The groin? by mcgrew · · Score: 1

    How do they do this procedure on women?

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  12. Better Title by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Surgery-Simulating Dummy Allows Doctors To Practice Medicine

  13. Cybernetic Brain Artery Model + Realdoll = ?? by omems · · Score: 1

    horrible, horrible, life-changing, permanently-scarring bloodbath.

    At least until you get the tentacle mod.

  14. As Holden would say by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Three hours into the autopsy they still think they're cutting up a human!

  15. skills by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Cool, chicks dig doctors with skills

  16. Video game to train surgeons by steveha · · Score: 1

    I recently watched a Google Tech Talk about a video game that trains the exact same skills as arthroscopic surgery. The game is designed so that you can play it with Wii nunchuck controller, or with a custom controller rig that duplicates the equipment used for arthroscopic surgery.

    One interesting point: they built a training facility, but the simulators were not fun, and medical students used the training facility as little as they could manage. The game is designed to be fun so people will play it willingly.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpSvDvYvJGk

    steveha

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