TY - JOUR
T1 - First validation of the PASSPORT training environment for arthroscopic skills
AU - Tuijthof, Gabriëlle J.M.
AU - van Sterkenburg, Maayke N.
AU - Sierevelt, Inger N.
AU - van Oldenrijk, Jakob
AU - van Dijk, C. Niek
AU - Kerkhoffs, Gino M.M.J.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments This work was supported by the Technology Foundation STW, applied science division of NWO and the technology program of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Netherlands and by the Dutch Association of Arthroscopy (NVA). Arthrex Nederland bv (Sint Anthonis, the Netherlands) provided all arthroscopic equipment for the evaluation. The authors wish to thank D.T. Nguyen and all the medical students that assisted during the experiments as well as Marieke van Nieuwenhuizen for her help in the construction of PASSPORT. Finally, we want to give special thanks to all the orthopedic surgeons and residents that participated in the experiment during the Nordic Orthopedic Federation conference in June 2008.
PY - 2010/2
Y1 - 2010/2
N2 - The demand for high quality care is in contrast to reduced training time for residents to develop arthroscopic skills. Thereto, simulators are introduced to train skills away from the operating room. In our clinic, a physical simulation environment to Practice Arthroscopic Surgical Skills for Perfect Operative Real-life Treatment (PASSPORT) is being developed. The PASSPORT concept consists of maintaining the normal arthroscopic equipment, replacing the human knee joint by a phantom, and integrating registration devices to provide performance feedback. The first prototype of the knee phantom allows inspection, treatment of menisci, irrigation, and limb stressing. PASSPORT was evaluated for face and construct validity. Construct validity was assessed by measuring the performance of two groups with different levels of arthroscopic experience (20 surgeons and 8 residents). Participants performed a navigation task five times on PASSPORT. Task times were recorded. Face validity was assessed by completion of a short questionnaire on the participants' impressions and comments for improvements. Construct validity was demonstrated as the surgeons (median task time 19.7 s [8.0-37.6]) were more efficient than the residents (55.2 s [27.9-96.6]) in task completion for each repetition (Mann-Whitney U test, P<0.05). The prototype of the knee phantom sufficiently imitated limb outer appearance (79%), portal resistance (82%), and arthroscopic view (81%). Improvements are required for the stressing device and the material of cruciate ligaments. Our physical simulation environment (PASSPORT) demonstrates its potential to evolve as a training modality. In future, automated performance feedback is aimed for.
AB - The demand for high quality care is in contrast to reduced training time for residents to develop arthroscopic skills. Thereto, simulators are introduced to train skills away from the operating room. In our clinic, a physical simulation environment to Practice Arthroscopic Surgical Skills for Perfect Operative Real-life Treatment (PASSPORT) is being developed. The PASSPORT concept consists of maintaining the normal arthroscopic equipment, replacing the human knee joint by a phantom, and integrating registration devices to provide performance feedback. The first prototype of the knee phantom allows inspection, treatment of menisci, irrigation, and limb stressing. PASSPORT was evaluated for face and construct validity. Construct validity was assessed by measuring the performance of two groups with different levels of arthroscopic experience (20 surgeons and 8 residents). Participants performed a navigation task five times on PASSPORT. Task times were recorded. Face validity was assessed by completion of a short questionnaire on the participants' impressions and comments for improvements. Construct validity was demonstrated as the surgeons (median task time 19.7 s [8.0-37.6]) were more efficient than the residents (55.2 s [27.9-96.6]) in task completion for each repetition (Mann-Whitney U test, P<0.05). The prototype of the knee phantom sufficiently imitated limb outer appearance (79%), portal resistance (82%), and arthroscopic view (81%). Improvements are required for the stressing device and the material of cruciate ligaments. Our physical simulation environment (PASSPORT) demonstrates its potential to evolve as a training modality. In future, automated performance feedback is aimed for.
KW - Arthroscopy
KW - Knee
KW - Simulator
KW - Skills
KW - Training
KW - Validity
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U2 - 10.1007/s00167-009-0872-3
DO - 10.1007/s00167-009-0872-3
M3 - Article
C2 - 19629441
AN - SCOPUS:77951252969
SN - 0942-2056
VL - 18
SP - 218
EP - 224
JO - Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy
JF - Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy
IS - 2
ER -