My Virtual Anastomosis

About

MY VIRTUAL ANASTOMOSIS, is a digital portal that interactively connects scholars in training with expert faculty. The main goal is to help scholars develop their practical surgical skills, and to maximize the training effect through ongoing, personalized feedback provided by an expert surgeon-evaluator. Together with Ethicon's Anastomotic Skills labs and the Arroyo's Anastomotic Simulator, winner of the EACTS 2011 Ethicon CARDIOVACULAR SIMULATION AWARD, My Virtual Anastomosis delivers a comprehensive educational continuum for development of technical surgical skills in one of the key areas of cardiovascular surgery.

Target Audience

Any surgeon in training who will perform an anastomosis: cardiac surgery, vascular surgery, plastic surgery, gastro-intestinal surgery and gynaecological surgery.

Specifications

Execution

Available for

Investment

Free

Goals Objectives

Help scholars develop their practical skills

Maximize the training effect through ongoing personalized quantitative and qualitative feedback

Non-Goals Objectives

Physical and mental preparation of the surgeon

Identify the degree of stenosis of the host vessel

Make an appropriate indication for surgery

Have a correct attitude during surgery

Prepare and condition the patient for the surgical process

Identify, expose maybe stabilize vessels in the human heart

Harvest and prepare a graft

My Learning Pathway

Goals & Objectives
- Entry Survey - Level of Proficiency
Anastomotic Skills Curriculum
- Survey - Structured Training Experience I
- Survey - Structured Training Experience II
- Survey - Structured Training Experience III
Scoring system - OSATS
- Survey - OSATS Experience
Introduction to an anastomosis
Step 1 - Posture, Manipulation of Needle holder - goals and objectives
Step 1 - Posture, Manipulation of Needle holder - Training
- STEP 1 - Material Resources for this step
- STEP 1 - Posture of body, elbow and fore-arm
- STEP 1 - Posture of wrist and hand
- STEP 1 - Hand-needle holder relationship
- STEP 1 - Needle holder manipulation
- STEP 1 - Hand-needle holder relationship
- Exam Step 1
STEP 2 - Needle Manipulation and Optimization -goals and objectives
STEP 2 - Needle Manipulation and Optimization - Training
- STEP 2 - Material Resources for this step
- STEP 2 - Essential elements to remember from STEP 1
- STEP 2 - Changing the angle of the needle versus the needle holder
- STEP 2 - Handling errors
- STEP 2 - Technical tips (1/2)
- STEP 2 - Technical tips (2/2)
- STEP 2 - From a two dimensional to a three dimensional world
- STEP 2 - Anastomotic curriculum step 2
- Exam Step 2
STEP 3 - Bite and Spacing - Overview
STEP 3 - Bite and Spacing - Training
- STEP 3 - Material resources for this step
- STEP 3 - Essential elements to remember from step 1 and 2
- STEP 3 - Creation of an anastomotic environment
- STEP 3 - Arteriotomy
- STEP 3 - Graft Orientation
- STEP 3 - Start of the anastomosis
- STEP 3 - The bite and spacing
- STEP 3 - The suturing
- STEP 3 - Anastomotic curriculum step 3
- Exam Step 3
STEP 4 - Mastery in Anastomotic Simulation - Overview
STEP 4 - Mastery in Anastomotic Simulation - Training
- STEP 4 - Material Resources for this step
- STEP 4 - Essential elements to remember from step 1, 2 and 3
- STEP 4 - Tasks for this step
- STEP 4 - A self made low fidelity simulator
- STEP 4 - The Arroyo low fidelity simulator
- STEP 4 - The final suturing
- STEP 4 - Some more anastomotic elements
- STEP 4 - The final anastomosis
- Exam Step 4
- STEP 4 - Evaluation exercise Fann OSATS JTCVS2008;136:1486
Certificate