DiT DZM: A training phantom that mimics human vessels and nerves

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2023: Creating a phantom that mimics human vessels and nerves

The Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine (NPCC DiT DZM) on June 27, 2023 informed Zdrav.Expert about the creation of a training phantom that simulates human vessels and nerves.

Moscow scientists have created a training phantom that simulates human vessels and nerves

Six different medical phantoms have already been developed.

With the help of a training model, specialists will be able to develop skills in performing important manipulations, including gaining access to vessels under ultrasound control and blocking peripheral nerves for anesthesia.

The development was tested at the medical simulation center of the S.P. Botkin. She received only positive reviews from practitioners.

Thanks to them, doctors gain invaluable experience in the ultrasound diagnosis of aneurysms and blood clots of the brain, neoplasms in the mammary and thyroid glands. They are trained in manipulations under UZ navigation. All this allows specialists in the treatment of patients to act as accurately as possible and without mistakes, noted Sergei Sobyanin Moscow Mayor.

This is a realistically made phantom, the creation of which paid great attention to all the details. An anesthetic simulation can be introduced into the model to check the location of the needle tip and work out the entire regional anesthesia procedure. The phantom can be reused for training: fluids in it are removed automatically. Every year, more advanced substances appear that are not only able to improve the simulated parameters, but also to make the use of phantoms commercially available for widespread use in clinical practice. The DMS Diagnostic and Telemedicine Center continues to work on the creation and improvement of new test objects, noted the chief freelance specialist in radiation and instrumental diagnostics of the Moscow Department of Health, director of the Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine Yuri Vasiliev.