Simball Box for Laparoscopic Training With Advanced 4D Motion Analysis of Skills

What is it about?

We found that Simball Box is a useful laparoscopic simulator that delivers metrics on performance while you use your ordinary laparoscopic equipment during training. It combines the best of two worlds; sense of touch just like in the old school video box and delivers metrics like in modern Virtual Reality simulators.

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Why is it important?

The simulator can visualise ones progress of performance with numbers (metrics) and also record a performance for later viewing together with instructor, functions that old video boxes lack. It's realistic since you use the same instruments while practicing as in the OR, and it gives a functional correspondence between training and the actual task you will do in the OR (e.g suturing). We consider it a useful tool for laparoscopic training.