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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2014
Simulab Corporation, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher C. Toly, Seattle, WA (US);
Douglas J. Beighle, Redmond, WA (US);
Aaron M. Erbeck, Seattle, WA (US);
Tyler L. Hartley, Seattle, WA (US);
Jay A. Borseth, Seattle, WA (US);
Simulab Corporation, Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A medical trainer simulator includes a plurality of simulated vessels filled with a conductive fluid representing, for example, veins or arteries. While performing a procedure using the medical trainer, a person inserts a medical instrument, e.g., a needle or scalpel, into a selected vessel, causing the medical instrument to contact the conductive fluid. A circuit board detects when a circuit is thus created by detecting an electrical current flowing through the medical instrument and the conductive fluid it has contacted. A software program executing on a computer excludes any phantom circuit occurring when the medical instrument contacts conductive fluid from a previous procedure that is not within one of the vessels. A phantom circuit is detected if the resistance of the resulting circuit exceeds a predetermined threshold. The computer visually and/or audibly indicates whether the correct vessel was pierced or excized by the medical instrument.