Assessing bimanual performance in brain tumor resection with NeuroTouch, a virtual reality simulator.

Authors: Fahad E Alotaibi, Gmaan A AlZhrani, Muhammad AS Mullah, Abdulrahman J Sabbagh, Hamed Azarnoush, Alexander Winkler-Schwartz, Rolando F Del Maestro

Publication date: 2015

Journal: Operative Neurosurgery

Publisher: LWW

Description:

BACKGROUND:

Validated procedures to objectively measure neurosurgical bimanual psychomotor skills are unavailable. The NeuroTouch simulator provides metrics to determine bimanual performance, but validation is essential before implementation of this platform into neurosurgical training, assessment, and curriculum development.

OBJECTIVE:

To develop, evaluate, and validate neurosurgical bimanual performance metrics for resection of simulated brain tumors with NeuroTouch.

METHODS:

Bimanual resection of 8 simulated brain tumors with differing color, stiffness, and border complexity was evaluated. Metrics assessed included blood loss, tumor percentage resected, total simulated normal brain volume removed, total tip path lengths, maximum and sum of forces used by instruments, efficiency index, ultrasonic aspirator path length index, coordination index, and ultrasonic aspirator bimanual forces ratio …

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Assessing bimanual performance in brain tumor resection with NeuroTouch, a virtual reality simulator.