Singh Ajay, Strauss Glenn H
Kansas University School of Medicine, Prairie Village, KS, USA.
Help Me See, Tyler, TX, USA
Surg Innov. 2015 Apr;22(2):189-93. doi: 10.1177/1553350614537120. Epub 2014 Jul 4.
The burden of global cataract blindness continues to rise, because the number of surgical ophthalmologists is insufficient, and they are unevenly distributed. There is an urgent need to train surgeons quickly and comprehensively in high-quality, low-cost cataract removal techniques. The authors suggest manual small-incision cataract surgery as a safe alternative to phacoemulsification cataract surgery in the developing world. They discuss the development of a novel, full-immersion, physics-based surgical training simulator as the centerpiece of a scalable, comprehensive training system for manual small-incision cataract surgery.
全球白内障致盲负担持续上升,原因在于眼科手术医生数量不足且分布不均。迫切需要对外科医生进行快速且全面的高质量、低成本白内障摘除技术培训。作者建议在发展中世界,手动小切口白内障手术可作为超声乳化白内障手术的一种安全替代方法。他们讨论了一种新型的、基于物理的全沉浸式手术训练模拟器的开发,该模拟器是用于手动小切口白内障手术的可扩展综合训练系统的核心。