Ramandeep Singh, Britty Baby, Natesan Damodaran, Vinkle Srivastav, Ashish Suri, Subhashis Banerjee, Subodh Kumar, Prem Kalra, Sanjiva Prasad, Kolin Paul, Sneh Anand, Sanjeev Kumar, Varun Dhiman, David Ben-Israel, Kulwant Singh Kapoor
BACKGROUND: Box trainers are ideal simulators, given they are inexpensive, accessible, and use appropriate fidelity. OBJECTIVE: The development and validation of an open-source, partial task simulator that teaches the fundamental skills necessary for endonasal skull-base neuro-endoscopic surgery. METHODS: We defined the Neuro-Endo-Trainer (NET) SkullBase-Task-GraspPickPlace with an activity area by analyzing the computed tomography scans of 15 adult patients with sellar suprasellar parasellar tumors...
February 2016: World Neurosurgery