Creating open source customizable skill trainers for healthcare professionals and students

  • Collaborative

    Co-created by clinicians, engineers, and biomedical designers

  • Open source

    Community access to designs enables improvement and adaptation by users

Coming soon: The NECK – a cross-specialty task trainer for anesthesia and ENT procedures

Ultrasound guided vascular access

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The basic trainer for ultrasound guided vascular access, suitable for training both venous and arterial puncture and catheter placement.

  • Customizable size and shape, can be flipped over for maximum usage
  • Multiple preformed vessels of varying calliper, depth, and paths
  • Enables training in both in-plane and out-of-plane technique

Ultrasound guided central venous access

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The most basic, yet realistic, task trainer for ultrasound guided central venous access.

  • Realistic surface anatomy
  • Inlay for preformed internal jugular vein and common carotid artery
  • Possibility of simulating pulsatile arterial flow by using hand-pump or Arduino-based electrical pump

Co-creation with users from healthcare

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At OpenPhantom, we have a vision of creating affordable open source task trainers for all specialties in all parts of the World.

We do this by

  1. Establishing local work groups consisting of clinicians, teachers, learners, engineers, and skilled makers
  2. Determining the most relevant learning goals of the proposed task trainer
  3. 3D-modelling of relevant anatomy and other features based on existing anatomical models, trainers, and image data such as CT-scans
  4. 3D printing, molding, casting, post-producing, and testing in an iterative collaboration with users
  5. Sharing the final designs with the community to enable worldwide adaptation and improvement