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  • Surgical Simulation
  • Quality Assurance

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  • Minimizing microsurgical technical errors before neurosurgery is challenging.
  • No effective approach exists for preventing operative errors in brain aneurysm surgery.
  • Ex vivo simulation with advanced imaging may offer a solution.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate an ex vivo simulator for preventing neurosurgical errors.
  • To assess the impact of simulator training on resident performance in brain aneurysm surgery.

Main Methods:

  • Identified common errors in brain aneurysm surgery.
  • Designed a placenta-based ex vivo simulator with microscopic fluorescein vessel flow imaging.
  • Trained neurosurgery residents and evaluated their performance.

Main Results:

  • Simulator training improved surgical performance and reduced perioperative errors (P < 0.05).
  • Microsurgical dissection of the arachnoid membrane and aneurysm sac showed significant improvement.
  • Brain parenchyma traction with secondary bleeding remained a challenge.

Conclusions:

  • Ex vivo simulator training shifted quality assurance to an earlier stage for residents.
  • A realistic simulator shows promise for reducing operative errors in brain aneurysm surgery.
  • Multicentric prospective studies are needed to validate these findings.