ITAG

McSleepy

World’s first totally automated administration of anesthetics. Nicknamed “McSleepy,” the system drugs for general anesthesia and monitors their separate effects completely automatically, with no manual intervention.
Using these three separate parameters and complex algorithms, the automated system calculates faster and more precisely than a human can the appropriate drug doses for any given moment of anesthesia. “McSleepy” assists the anesthesiologist in the same way an automatic transmission assists people when driving. As such, anesthesiologists can focus more on other aspects of direct patient care. An additional feature is that the system can communicate with personal digital assistants (PDAs), making distant monitoring and anesthetic control possible. In addition, this technology can be easily incorporated into modern medical teaching programs such as simulation centers and web-based learning platforms.

Sat-Map

Sat-Map is an inexpensive software-based tool that utilizes ultrasound (US) imaging and an online platform to provide accurate regional fat distribution and volume estimations in plastic surgery. It was developed as a companion tool in order to help improve surgical planning, measuring and executing the transfer of fat tissues, thus optimizing patient outcomes from liposuction-based procedures. Ultimately, Sat-Map brings forth an innovative scientific touch to the artistic aspect of aesthetic and reconstructive surgeries.

Nerve Map

Ultrasound-guided peripheral nerve blocks (UGPNB) are used to administer anesthesia to certain nerve regions of the body to reduce the feeling of pain before or after surgical procedures by guiding a needle toward a nerve of interest and injecting an anesthetic into the surrounding area. One of the most critical components of ultrasound-guided nerve blocks is the accurate detection of a nerve within an ultrasound image. Classifying the various types of tissue in a noisy, greyscale ultrasound feed is a daunting task. Therefore, a deep learning software solution is proposed to address these limitations by actively highlighting nerve regions in real-time ultrasound feeds. So far, the software is capable of automatically locating the Femoral Nerve and the Transversus Abdominis Plane, however, we are advancing towards adding additional important nerve regions.

MAMO

Surgical residents' exposure to aesthetic procedures remains limited in residency training. The development of the MAMO - Montreal Augmentation Mammoplasty Operation simulator aims to provide an adjunctive training method and assessment tool to complement the evolving competency-based surgical curriculum.
The MAMO allows to perform face, content, and construct validations of the MAMO simulator for subpectoral breast augmentation procedures and assess the reliability of the assessment scales used.

Bariatric Simulator

Having nearly tripled since 1975, the incidence of obesity continues to increase globally. As a substantial future component of the patient population, high-level training in the management of obese surgical patients is becoming increasingly important.  This increasing demand in the field of bariatric surgery - a surgical subspecialty focused on operations that can help obese individuals lose weight - has led our group to formulate novel solutions to this training problem via medical simulation. In this specific project, we have aimed to construct and validate a bariatric-specific laparoscopic surgical task trainer. Our goal is to highlight the potential for simulation as a tool to improve bariatric surgical education and positively impact future patient outcomes. Once established, we hope to further expand the scope of our task trainer by simulating specific complex procedures and branch out into new surgical subspecialties such as urology or gynecology.