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Medicus- Laparoscopic Sugical Skills Training and Assessment Tool

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Defense 		Branch:
Navy 		Award ID:
98558 		Program Year/Program:
2010 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
N101-094-1223 		Solicitation Year:
N/A 		Solicitation Topic Code:
NAVY 10-094 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
Aptima, Inc.
12 Gill Street Suite 1400 Woburn, MA -
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 1
Fiscal Year: 2010
Title: Medicus- Laparoscopic Sugical Skills Training and Assessment Tool
Agency / Branch: DOD / NAVY
Contract: N00014-10-M-0153
Award Amount: $70,000.00
 

Abstract:

While on deployment, many surgeons - including those who specialize in obstetric, vascular, cardiac, and orthopedic surgery - spend the bulk of their time performing trauma surgery. Such prolonged lapses in practice can result in the decay of specialized knowledge and skills. This becomes a major problem upon the surgeons' return stateside, when they are expected to resume their specialty duties with little or no re-credentialing. With this in mind, Aptima proposes to develop the MedicusTM Laparoscopic Surgical Skills Training and Assessment Tool, which applies automated measurement of psychomotor skills to drive deliberate practice-based training for decay-prone skills. When complete, MedicusTM will collect real-time measures of the surgeons' performance that are measured using the position, orientation, and/or manipulation of the surgical instruments. MedicusTM will then calculate mathematical formulae-based measures of the surgeon's performance, score the surgeon's performance by comparing it with those of surgical experts, and provide the surgeon with diagnostic feedback using computer animations with audio commentary. Finally, MedicusTM will be integrated with another tool that trains and assesses critical cognitive skills in laparoscopic surgery. The end result will be an integrated set of training and assessment tools for laparoscopic surgeons in the military and civilian medical communities.

Principal Investigator:

Jared Freeman
Chief Research Officer
2028421548
freeman@aptima.com

Business Contact:

Thomas McKenna
Chief Financial Officer
7814962443
mckenna@aptima.com
Small Business Information at Submission:

Aptima, Inc.
12 Gill Street Suite 1400 Woburn, MA 01801

EIN/Tax ID: 043281859
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No