Patient Simulator Segmentation for Realistic Birthing Training
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing patient simulators lack realism and functionality, making them inadequate for comprehensive medical training, particularly in birthing scenarios, and do not allow for simultaneous team-based training without risking actual patients.
Innovation Solution
A patient simulator system comprising a maternal and fetal simulator with advanced features such as a birthing mechanism, structural framework, and soft silicon skin layers, enabling realistic and portable training scenarios, including pre- and post-operative care simulations, and allowing multiple users to practice team-based training in a tetherless configuration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If existing patient simulators are used for medical training, then training can be conducted without risking actual patients, but the simulators lack realism and functionality making them inadequate for comprehensive medical training
Solution Approach 1:
The patient simulator is divided into multiple segments including a maternal simulator portion and a fetal simulator portion that can be independently configured and positioned. This segmentation allows each portion to be optimized for specific training scenarios while maintaining overall system functionality and realism.
Solution Approach 2:
The fetal simulator is nested within the maternal simulator portion, with the fetal simulator containing an internal chamber that receives and houses additional components. This nested structure enables realistic anatomical representation while maintaining portability and ease of setup.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a realistic patient simulator with birthing mechanism is created, then comprehensive birthing scenario training is enabled, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patient simulator is designed as a multi-functional system that can perform various training scenarios including birthing simulations, patient care procedures, and team-based training. The structural framework and positioning mechanisms serve multiple functions by supporting different configurations and training modules.
Solution Approach 2:
The simulator incorporates movable and adjustable components including the birthing mechanism that can translate and rotate the fetal simulator, allowing dynamic simulation of birthing processes while maintaining a relatively simple base structure that can be configured as needed.
3Ease of operation
If tetherless configuration is implemented for portable training, then mobility and ease of operation improve, but maintaining structural support and alignment becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The structural framework incorporates pre-configured alignment features and attachment points that guide proper positioning of the maternal and fetal simulator portions. These preliminary structural arrangements ensure correct alignment is achieved through simple placement rather than complex adjustment mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The system replaces complex mechanical tethering and positioning systems with simplified structural frameworks that provide inherent stability and alignment through their geometry and connection points, enabling portable operation without compromising structural integrity.
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A patient simulator and corresponding method, according to which a control system and a simulated spine assembly are adapted to simulate human spinal motion. The simulated spine assembly includes a plurality of pivoting joints connected together. In one or more embodiments, the simulated spine assembly further includes one or more encoders adapted to monitor one or more relative positions of the plurality of pivoting joints, and to communicate the monitored one or more relative positions to the control system. In addition, or instead, in one or more embodiments, the simulated spine assembly further includes one or more sensors adapted to monitor one or more forces being applied to one or more of the plurality of pivoting joints, and to communicate the monitored one or more forces to the control system.