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Leading and up-and-coming brands use haptics to great advantage. Their products are winning awards, receiving acclaim, and delighting customers with extraordinary user experiences. Check out the featured products below or read our recent news.
Recent News
Mako Surgical: RIO Robotic Arm System
MDEA-winners excel in innovation, design and engineering of healthcare delivery products that achieve end-user benefit, and cost-effectiveness
Challenge
- Maintain procedural boundaries during robotic-arm assisted orthopedic procedures
Solution
- Utilize haptic technology to provide real-time feedback to physician
- Facilitate optimal joint resurfacing and implant positioning within the knee
Outcome
- Promising early clinical results comparable to established techniques
- Relatively short learning curve for use of this new technology
- RIO Robotic Arm Interactive Orthopedic System by Mako Surgical Corp. Wins 2010 Gold Medical Design Excellence Award
Laerdal Virtual I.V. System
Improve student’s clinical assessment and performance in IV insertion and phlebotomy
Challenge
- Provide realistic IV insertion and phlebotomy experiences to a variety of users in multiple medical disciplines and different clinical situations
Solution
- Use haptic force feedback to provide tactile responses associated with skin/vessel palpation and needle insertion
Outcome
- Realistic fail-safe environment for students to learn IV insertion and phlebotomy techniques
- Many nursing educators face the challenge of incorporating simulation into the classroom. They want to plan and implement a simulation training program but aren’t sure where to start
Read Laerdal's simulation education success story, "Ridgewater improves clinical performance and students' results in clinical assessments"
CAE EndoscopyVR Surgical Simulator: Lower GI Modules
Modules are designed to help users quickly develop proficiency
Challenge
- Enable more rapid progress in learning how to perform sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy
- Improve performance on human cases
Solution
- Use of TouchSense technology results in realistic feel of sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy simulation
- Helps develop knowledge and skills by presenting progressively difficult anatomy and pathology
Outcome
- Reduced number of cases to achieve clinical competency
- Lowered patient discomfort; reduced procedural time
- “Now, using simulation, instead of walking in as novices, our fellows walk in with a fairly high level of experience.”
—Dr. James C. Reynolds
Interim Chair of Medicine
Drexel University College of Medicine
Simbionix LAP Mentor Surgery Simulator
Multi-disciplinary system offers training opportunities for new and experienced surgeons
Challenge
- Provide realistic hands-on training to new or experienced surgeons
Solution
- Use Immersion TouchSense technology to provide tactile experience of tissue resistance feedback via surgical tools
Outcome
- High fidelity surgical simulation with a true-to-life feel of performing laparoscopic surgery
- The LAP Mentor robust simulator is of
advanced ergonomic design. A tactile
experience of tissue resistance feedback
via the surgical tools provides a true-to-life feel of performing laparoscopic surgery.