title: Simulation in cardiac catheterization laboratory: Need of the hour to improve the clinical skills.
abstract: Simulation is an effective teaching tool to decrease the learning curve for novices without compromising patient safety. Simulation helps interventionalist in mentally translating a two dimentional, black and white image into a usable three dimentional model. It also bridges the gap in training diverse team members on new procedures and products. All simulators have collision detection, i.e., virtual contact forces generated from collision which updates haptic output with new calculations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Anaesthesia, CTC, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Shivani
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aggarwal
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Anaesthesia, CTC, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Erin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Choudhury
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Anaesthesia, CTC, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Suruchi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ladha
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Anaesthesia, CTC, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Poonam Malhotra
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Kapoor
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Anaesthesia, CTC, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Usha
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Kiran
mesh_terms: D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000379:methods*; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D008348:Manikins