dv-Trainer
Skills Training for Robotic Surgery
Mimic Technologies has developed a training simulator, the dV-Trainer, designed to allow efficient, on-demand training for surgeons learning to use the da
Vinci® Surgical System, a sophisticated robotic platform designed to enable complex surgery using a minimally invasive approach.
Video Overview (requires Windows Media Player 11.0 or above)
Training Modules Available on dV-Trainer
- System training
- Surgeon Console Awareness
- EndoWrist Manipulation
- Camera & Clutching
- Trouble Shooting
- Skills Training
- Needle Control
- Needle Driving
- Energy & Dissection
- Games
Mimic’s dV-Trainer is a “flight simulator” for the da Vinci® Surgical System. This simulator is designed to teach basic robotic skills, such as instrument manipulation, camera control, clutching, and suturing. Key components of the dV-Trainer are a compact hardware platform that closely reproduces the look and feel of the da Vinci® surgeon’s console, and simulation software based on Mimic’s proprietary virtual reality modeling technology.
Benefits of Mimic’s dV-Trainer include:
- Virtual robot training does not require a da Vinci robot, vision cart or patient cart
- Surgeon focused independent training may accelerate learning and increase da Vinci utilization
- Performance analysis and assessment tools can be used to monitor learning progress
- Training costs are minimized as the dV-Trainer does not degrade the life of da Vinci instruments or waste materials such as sutures and training aids
The dV-Trainer is currently in beta development with validation studies currently underway. Product launch is planned for the spring of 2010. Ask us now about pre-release programs.
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The dV-Trainer is not a product designed, manufactured, sold or distributed by Intuitive Surgical, Inc.