Army orders medical simulators.The U.S. Army ordered 44 medical simulators from San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif., touchtechnology maker Immersion Corp. The devices, costing an average of $15,000, help train medics Med´ics n. 1. Science of medicine. to draw blood and insert intravenous lines. The contract was awarded in August and deliveries were due in September. Immersion's 42-person office in Gaithersburg, Md., was able to fulfill the order within three weeks, said a company statement. Immersion makes the CathSim vascular access vascular access Clinical medicine The ability to enter the vascular system; the ease with which the vascular system can be entered for administering therapy or obtaining blood for testing simulator. CathSim combines software, a catheter interface device and a personal computer to create training scenarios that exhibit realistic human tissue interaction such as bleeding and resistance. The system uses a patented TouchSense(r) technology, which enables a medical professional to feel subtle nuances of a vessel when performing a simulated medical procedure. A new module will be designed to integrate guide wire, catheter, dilator dilator /di·la·tor/ (di-lat´er) 1. a structure that dilates, or an instrument used to dilate. 2. dilator muscle. di·la·tor n. 1. , and needle procedures on a haptic haptic /hap·tic/ (hap´tik) tactile. hap·tic adj. Of or relating to the sense of touch; tactile. haptic tactile. feedback device attached to a laptop computer. Immersion received a Small Business Innovation Research grant to work on a new module for this simulator. |
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