Iranian Researchers Design Simulator for Laparoscopic Surgical Training of Resident Doctors
“The laparoscopic surgery simulator is an educational product for surgeons and resident doctors who are learning and experiencing laparoscopic surgery in universities and hospitals,” Golshid Rasayee, an expert for training and international sales of the Iranian knowledge-based company, told ANA.
“The surgical simulator has been made to perform the surgical process in the simulated space, and before performing the surgery on a human or animal sample, the person experiences the surgery in this simulated space,” she added.
Noting that the laparoscopic surgery simulator device has 30 defined tasks that during the surgical process record all details of the patient's condition (including blood pressure, heart rate, up and down pulse) and at the end provides a report on the surgery, Rasayee said, “This surgical simulator is mostly used for universities, hospitals and research institutes and generally any organization and institution that deals with surgeons and surgical training.”
Laparoscopy is a procedure used to check the organs in the belly (abdomen). It can also check a woman's pelvic organs. Laparoscopy uses a thin lighted tube that has a video camera. The tube is called a laparoscope.
Iranian experts in June 2021 conducted the first remote surgery on a dog by using the fully home-made robot, named Sina, making Iran the second country in the world after the US with the capability to develop surgical robots.
The robot has a surgical console that the surgeon can control and guide the surgery remotely by standing behind it and using two robotic arms.
Also a monitor has been placed next to the console that shows the image of surgery for surgeon clearly. The surgeon uses this system to control the surgery with a pedal and two robotic arms.
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