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Ultrasound in the delivery room: LaborSIM at Tor Vergata University
Sales agreement signed at the end of 2022. Prof. Giuseppe Rizzo, full professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology: “The simulator allows operators to be adequately trained for its correct use on the parturient.
The test provides reproducible measurements useful for making safer obstetric decisions for the woman and the child”
LaborSim, the intrapartum ultrasound simulator designed by the company Amolab, will soon be used for practical lessons aimed at students of the Medicine and Surgery degree course at the Tor Vergata University of Rome and for the training of gynecology and obstetrics postgraduates.
The sales agreement between Amolab and the University of Tor Vergata was reached in recent days and provides for the delivery of a simulator for teaching purposes.
The administrative process was followed by Dr. Romano Livoli of the Management Center of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, while the part relating to practical teaching will be headed by Professor Giuseppe Rizzo, full professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.
“I have known the Amolab company for some time: the opportunity was offered by participation in national and international conferences”, explains the professor. “The fact that it is a CNR spin-off was a quality requirement, verified over time, conference after conference, by the EGEO group”, continues prof. Rizzo referring to the group whose name is the acronym of Ultrasound in Obstetric Emergency Management, established within the Italian Society of Obstetric Gynecological Ultrasound (SIEOG), founded not only by Rizzo, but also by Professor Tullio Ghi of the University of Parma and by Professor Bianca Masturzo of the University of Turin.
“The delivery room ultrasound simulation group recognizes the company's high ability to adapt devices to clinical needs, creating new scenarios and software to acquire and evaluate images,” he continues. “It should be emphasized that the simulator constitutes an excellent training opportunity before acting directly on the patient, also preparing the staff for the use of the SensUS Touch, the portable ultrasound device, which through translabial scans allows monitoring of the various stages of labor ”.
“The simulator is very useful because it allows adequate preparation of the operators for the use of the ultrasound in the delivery room. It will be used in the context of the teachings of the Medicine degree course, in relation to the practical one on childbirth, alongside classical semeiotics”, underlines the professor.
"We have planned extra-curricular training hours with students divided into small groups and we will do the same with postgraduates, according to well-defined periods".
The activation of training activities should start shortly.
"Ultrasound in the delivery room is extremely useful because it allows, through a clinical evaluation with automatic and reproducible measurements of the position of the fetal occiput and its station, to make safer obstetric decisions for the parturient and for the baby", he concludes .