Advanced Ureteroscopy Simulation Workstation for Medical

"Minimally invasive surgical procedures, although highly beneficial to the patients, require a high level of technical skill, for example, ureteroscopic endoscopic surgical procedures involve inserting a rigid cystoscope into the urethra, introducing aguidewire to the ureteral orifice and switching to a flexible ureteroscope while viewing the procedure on a monitor. There is a growing demand for hands-on training programs for these difficult and highest risk procedures. This phase I commercializationproject will demonstrate the feasibility of providing a personal computer-based ureteroscopic endoscopic surgical simulator to train military and civilian healthcare professionals. Simbionix Corporation has a proven record of developing pc-based medicalsimulators, for complicated, highly risky and least-encounter endoscopic simulation procedures. Evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of medical simulators for training is constantly mounting. And the readiness of the medical world to use simulators intraining is likewise accruing. Simbionix Corporation, headquartered in Cleveland, benefits from a close collaboration with the prestigious Cleveland Clinic Foundation. This project will bring to the surgical training market a high fidelity simulator,capable of training health professionals to perform numerous procedures such as stone extraction, stone lithotripsy, opening of strictures and complicated procedures with difficult learning curv