New Hands-on Simulator for Realistic Training of Diagnostic and Therapeutic ERCP

With the diminishing of diagnostic ERCPs - due to the increasing impact of MRCP - education and training of (interventional) ERCP becomes more and more difficult. So the demands for structured and effective hands-on training become most relevant. To overcome the obvious problems and disadvantages of the available training phantoms (living animals, biosimulators, plastic phantoms, VR-simulators), a new hands-on training simulator was developed. This new phantom allows a realistic hands-on training of all ERCP procedures including all interventions like papillotomy, treatment of stenoses, stent implantation, lithotripsy, stone removal and special manoevers and offers with its human anatomy, avoidance of animal material and reality-like visual endoscopic appearance as well as realistic haptics and x-ray possibilities a new quality of high-end endoscopic training.