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Advanced Ureteroscopy Simulation Workstation for Medical

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Office of the Secretary of Defense
Contract: DAMD17-03-C-0044
Agency Tracking Number: O022-0331
Amount: $95,956.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N/A
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: N/A
Award Year: 2002
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
11000 Cedar Ave., Suite 210
Cleveland, OH 44106
United States
DUNS: 051187883
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Edna Chosack
 VP Strategic Marketing
 (216) 229-2040
 edna@simbionix.com
Business Contact
 Edna Chosack
Title: VP Strategic Marketing
Phone: (216) 229-2040
Email: edna@simbionix.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

"Minimally invasive surgical procedures, although highly beneficial to the patients, require a high level of technical skill, for example, ureteroscopic endoscopic surgical procedures involve inserting a rigid cystoscope into the urethra, introducing aguidewire to the ureteral orifice and switching to a flexible ureteroscope while viewing the procedure on a monitor. There is a growing demand for hands-on training programs for these difficult and highest risk procedures. This phase I commercializationproject will demonstrate the feasibility of providing a personal computer-based ureteroscopic endoscopic surgical simulator to train military and civilian healthcare professionals. Simbionix Corporation has a proven record of developing pc-based medicalsimulators, for complicated, highly risky and least-encounter endoscopic simulation procedures. Evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of medical simulators for training is constantly mounting. And the readiness of the medical world to use simulators intraining is likewise accruing. Simbionix Corporation, headquartered in Cleveland, benefits from a close collaboration with the prestigious Cleveland Clinic Foundation. This project will bring to the surgical training market a high fidelity simulator,capable of training health professionals to perform numerous procedures such as stone extraction, stone lithotripsy, opening of strictures and complicated procedures with difficult learning curv

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