Features and Benefits

Simulation

Simbionix ANGIO Mentor™ allow users to experience the sensations of performing an entire endovascular procedure under live fluoroscopy including complete diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, with hemodynamic monitoring, complications and drug administration – all in a controlled and safe environment. The system allows trainee to:

• Learn and practice the procedural steps
• Improve technical skills and performance
• Improve imaging and radiation safety skills
• Experience operation of a variety of interventional devices, including guidewires, angiographic catheters, microcatheters, guiding catheters and sheaths, balloons, stents, coils, embolic protection devices, stent graft systems, electrode leads and more.
• Experience a variety of realistic anatomies and pathologies – from simple to challenging, common or rare.
• Experience and manage real time complications – perforation, dissection, spasms and more.
• Practice patient management skills including vital signs monitoring and drug administration.

Angiography Suite / Cath Lab / Hybrid OR Simulation

• Real time creation of continuous fluoroscopy, roadmap, CINE and DSA imaging using foot pedals.
• A control panel allows manipulation of the c-arm and patient table.
• Simulation of C-arm and patient’s table maneuvering.
• Ability to store and browse images/sequence acquired.

System features

• Friendly user interface enables using the system instantly and independently.
• High-end haptic system for visual and tactile feedback, which realistically mimics the look and feel of actual endovascular interventions.
• A comprehensive drug panel including anti-hypertensive, anticoagulation or thrombolytic agents.
• Vital signs and ECG monitor reflecting complications or drug administration.
• QCA enables vessel measurements.

Educational Aids

• 3D anatomical views – allow the trainee to work without fluoroscopy to become familiar with the anatomy.
• Virtual instructor messages and warnings – guide the trainee through the procedure.

Technical Skills Recording and Assessment

1. A procedure log tracks all user actions- devices used, contrast injected, imaging, drug administration, hemodynamic changes and complications.
2. A comprehensive performance report includes tracking and capturing objective parameters:

• Accurate device selection and manipulation
• Trainee errors
• Complications occurrence and management
• Radiation safety
• Contrast usage