Virtual Reality Catheter Simulator

📄 Project Abstract

The face of medical treatment is constantly changing with an increasing trend towards complex and demanding surgical operations. The typical surgeon is expected to embody vastly superior expertise and experience when compared to their predecessors. One form of treatment where this is particularly prevalent is Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS), an operation which requires specialised instruments to be inserted through small incisions in the body. Training surgeons to be capable of performing such a complex operation has not been easy. Whilst practical experience on real-life patients would certainly provide the most realistic training, allowing an unskilled trainee surgeon to operate on a patient has legal, economical and ethical ramifications. Other popular alternatives for trainee surgeons include practising on animals and cadavers. However, this form of training is inadequate because animals have a different anatomy to humans and cadavers cannot provide any physiological response (Liu...