AbSim Abdominal Examination Trainer

Designed to replace the need for human subjects, AbSim is a high-fidelity abdominal examination simulator that provides tactile, audio, and visual feedback to accurately train and test learners in abdominal palpation skills.

AbSim is healthcare's leading fully automated abdominal simulator, featuring a digital platform with a milestone-driven approach to developing abdominal examination competencies.

Five Core Abdominal Examination Milestones:

1. Palpate the abdomen to an appropriate depth
• AbSim continually monitors the depth of the learner's palpatory efforts in real time and provides immediate feedback sufficient to improve their capacity to detect the presence or absence of abdominal abnormalities
2. Perform a thorough palpatory examination of the abdomen
• Tracks the location of the learner's palpatory efforts in real time and provides immediate visual feedback regarding the thoroughness of their abdominal examination
• Feedback is sufficient to improve their capacity to detect the presence or absence of abdominal abnormalities
3. Reliably detect palpatory findings associated with the above disorders
• AbSim changes between cases automatically, with no need to manually insert or adjust internal parts
• Provides learners practice opportunities sufficient to reliably detect and distinguish, a core set of abdominal abnormalities such as the presence of localized tenderness and/or guarding (e.g., appendicitis, cholecystitis), and/or organomegaly (e.g., splenomegaly, hepatomegaly, distended urinary bladder)
4. Reliably identify randomly selected abdominal disorders
• AbSim enables learners to self-assess their evolving ability to reliably detect randomly selected abnormal abdominal findings (e.g. localized tenderness or localized tenderness and guarding over the appendix, ovaries, colon), and various forms of organomegaly (e.g., splenomegaly, etc.)
5. Reliably diagnose historical and physical findings associated with several common and important abdominal presentations
• AbSim provides learners with case vignettes integrated with a variety of abnormal abdominal findings
• Practice opportunities designed to develop and refine the learners' evolving capacity to correctly diagnose a variety of common/important abdominal disorders

Assessment Features:

Supports OSCE-based assessments of abdominal examination competencies:

• Use AbSim to augment or replace standardized patient-based OSCE stations with fully automated and consistently replicated high fidelity portrayals of a wide variety of abdominal disorders
• Ability to portray several disorders dramatically increases the reliability of abdominal OSCE station assessments
• Verify the depth and thoroughness of the abdominal examination
• Verify the learners' capacity to detect a wide variety of abdominal disorders
• Verify the learners' capacity to competently diagnose several important abdominal conditions

Additional Key Features:

• Supports full integration with case-based ultrasound training
• Fully automated, computer-based, menu-driven selection of desired instructional activity
• Fully automated transition from one instructional activity to another (eliminates need for lab assistant to manually change organs for each instructional activity)
• Simulates enlarged organs: liver and spleen
• Simulates an unremarkable examination
• Provides learners with immediate, visually based, corrective feedback regarding the accuracy of each learner's palpatory findings/diagnosis for each case encountered
• Expedites development of palpatory skills via a fully automated presentation of randomly selected acute abdominal scenarios and immediate visual feedback
• 10 Seconds average time to change from one training activity to another
• Designed specifically to support self-directed learning: students can easily select specific competencies and the order in which they wish to develop them
• Works with Windows^® 10 OS

Conduct Realistic Simulations of The Following Disorders:

Localized tenderness over:

• Appendix
• Descending colon
• Gallbladder
• Ovaries
• Pancreas
• Upper epigastric region
• Urinary bladder

Localized tenderness and guarding over:

• Appendix
• Colon
• Gallbladder
• Ovaries

Organomegaly involving:

• Liver
• Spleen
• Urinary bladder

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