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Article Dans Une Revue IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering Année : 2007

Design of a new instrumented forceps: Application to safe obstetrical forceps blade placement

Richard Moreau
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Minh Tu Pham
Ruirnark Silveira
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Tanneguy Redarce
Xavier Brun

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Today, medical simulators are increasingly gaining appeal in clinical settings. In obstetrics childbirth simulators provide a training and research tool for comparing various techniques that use obstetrical instruments or validating new methods. Especially in the case of difficult deliveries, the use of obstetrical instruments - such as forceps, spatulas, and vacuum extractors - has become essential. However, such instruments increase the risk of injury to both the mother and fetus. Only clinical experience acquired in the delivery room enables health professionals to reduce this risk. In this context, we have developed, in collaboration with researchers and physicians, a new type of instrumented forceps that offers new solutions for training obstetricians in the safe performance of forceps deliveries. This paper focuses on the design of this instrumented forceps, coupled with the BirthSIM simulator. This instrumented forceps allows to study its displacement inside the maternal pelvis. Methods for analyzing the operator repeatability and to compare forceps blade placements to a reference one are developed. The results highlight the need of teaching tools to adequately train novice obstetricians.
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hal-00179487 , version 1 (15-10-2007)

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Richard Moreau, Minh Tu Pham, Ruirnark Silveira, Tanneguy Redarce, Xavier Brun, et al.. Design of a new instrumented forceps: Application to safe obstetrical forceps blade placement. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2007, 54 (7), pp.1280-1290. ⟨10.1109/TBME.2006.889777⟩. ⟨hal-00179487⟩
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