Designing an Accurate and Customizable Epidural Anesthesia Haptic Simulator
Thibault sénac, Arnaud Lelevé, Richard Moreau, Laurent Krahenbuhl, Florent Sigwalt, Christian Bauert, Quentin Rouby
Abstract
Epidural anesthesia, despite being a relatively common medical procedure, remains quite demanding in terms of skills as it is mostly blind and thus heavily reliant on the haptic sensations. Although some training support solutions exist, anesthetists consider them mostly inefficient or impractical. A few attempts at creating a simulator for this particular procedure exist but each one lacks one of the important requirements of the procedure. This article introduces a haptic simulator featuring a more complete and realistic simulation of the procedure than we could observe in existing simulators. The simulator is composed of a generic electrical haptic interface coupled with a pneumatic cylinder.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{icra2019_designinganaccur,
title = {Designing an Accurate and Customizable Epidural Anesthesia Haptic Simulator},
author = {Thibault sénac and Arnaud Lelevé and Richard Moreau and Laurent Krahenbuhl and Florent Sigwalt and Christian Bauert and Quentin Rouby},
booktitle = {ICRA 2019},
year = {2019}
}