CATHI - TRAINING ON VIRTUAL PATIENTS FOR CATHETER INTERVENTIONS
Ulrike Kornmesser, Jürgen Hesser, Wolfram Voelker, Reinhard Männer · Biomedizinische Technik/Biomedical Engineering · 2002
In this paper we present a trainings system for catheter interventions, especially PCTAs also called ballon dilatation. Despite the large number of such interventions the education of the cardiologist is still based on learning on the patient. This means risk to the patient and additional cost. To overcome these problems we developed the CathI system (Catheter Instruction System), a realistic computerbased training system. It provides the physician with the same equipment found in a catheter laboratory, e.g. original control instruments for the flouroscopy system, syringes, catheters, and guide wires. CathI only replaces patient and C-arm by a virtual patient and a virtual x-ray system.