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The success of any surgical intervention is narrowly linked to the operating comfort of the surgeon. Nicknamed "chicken wings", the typical posture adopted by a practitioner during a laparoscopic intervention leads to cervical, shoulders and back pains. To avoid such a posture is one of the main challenge of medical devices designers. Instruments length, lack of articulations as well as...
Semi-active energy dissipation devices are used in various domains like the automotive industry or seismic protection structures. This article presents the design and the implementation of a cylinder/piston energy dissipation system in a 6-month old infant simulator for respiratory physiotherapy training. The system is supposed to modify the compliance of the simulators thorax by equipping it with...
Semi active devices to modify the stiffness or the damping of systems received significant attention in the recent years. In this paper, two solutions of a variable compliance device to change the physiotherapists feeling of the thorax compliance of a 6-month old infant torso training simulator are presented. A first solution, using a variable orifice device which allows to change the compliance by...
Currently, constraint-free realistic context training is nonexistent in infant physiotherapy. In order to enhance the vocational learning of novices, in close collaboration with expert physiotherapists, we designed an innovative simulator dedicated to the training of infant respiratory physiotherapy. This paper describes the simulator’s functionalities and the method used to design its physical structure...
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