Symani simulator will accelerate the expansion and adoption of robotic microsurgery
PISAItalia, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Medical Microinstruments (MMI) SpA, a robotics company dedicated to improving clinical outcomes for patients undergoing microsurgery, today announced the launch of its Symani Surgical System Simulator, developed by VirtaMed. The simulator will enhance, expand and digitize Symani’s training pathways as surgeons prepare to further their microsurgical skills through robotics.
“It was a priority for our company to offer our surgeons a simulation solution so that they can practice robotic microsurgery more comfortably,” he said. Mark TolandCEO of MMI SpA. “By training on the simulator, surgeons will be even more prepared for their first Symani patient or a difficult case.”
“We were looking for a way to provide surgeons with a Symani experience without the need to transport the system,” said Jamie MilasVice President of Marketing at MMI SpA. “We selected VirtaMed as our trusted partner because of their shared passion for improving patient care and because we knew they might develop a fully customized simulator that emulated our device and showcased the benefits of Symani microsurgery.” .
VirtaMed was established in 2007 and is a world leader in data-driven medical education and surgical training solutions. VirtaMed develops educationally relevant, first-class virtual reality simulators for various medical disciplines, including orthopedics, obstetrics, gynecology, urology, and laparoscopy. The VirtaMed LaparoS™ offers a lifelike experience for users, including the correct physical behavior of internal organs and the actual interactions of surgical tools with those organs.
“We are delighted to partner with MMI to address this new frontier of robotic surgery,” said Stefan Tuchschmid, VirtaMed Co-CEO. “MMI’s technology provides tremendous value to the surgical community and the patients it serves. We are proud that our collaboration has resulted in a simulator that is so realistic that surgeons can begin suturing immediately on Symani following just a few minutes of practice in the simulator”.
The addition of simulation will also speed up the MMI product development process by allowing new solutions to be tested in a virtual environment for effectiveness and usefulness.
MMI’s Symani Surgical System is the only robot dedicated to microsurgery to offer wrist instruments designed to enhance the surgeon’s ability to access and suture small, delicate anatomy. Its platform offers motion scaling and tremor reduction so surgeons can perform precise micromovements. With Symani, surgeons can perform sutures, ligations, anastomoses, and coaptations.
MMI will exhibit at the European Association of Plastic Surgeons, May 26-28 in Naples, Italy, and at the World Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery Congress, June 1-4, Cancun, Mexico. On the MMI stand there will be demonstrations of the Symani simulator and the Symani surgical system.
About MMI SpA
Medical Microinstruments SpA (MMI) was founded in 2015 near Pisa (Italy) to improve surgical performance by developing a robotic system that allows surgeons to obtain better results in microsurgery. The Symani Surgical System combines proprietary innovations, such as the world’s smallest wrist micro-instruments, as well as tremor reduction and motion scaling technologies. Taken together, these powerful capabilities enable more surgeons to successfully perform microsurgery, while expanding the field of supermicrosurgery. MMI is backed by international medical technology investors including Andera Partners, Panakes Partners, Fountain Healthcare Partners and Sambatech.
About VirtaMed
VirtaMed believes that medical education is powerfully delivered through data-driven simulation solutions. Since 2007, we have developed the leading solutions for training outside the operating room because we believe that healthcare professionals should never have to perform a procedure for the first time on a patient. VirtaMed simulators provide the most realistic and cost-effective training available for laparoscopic surgeons.
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