BE, HSC-NO Researchers Published in Medical Journal

July 5, 2022

BATON ROUGE, LA 鈥� A team of researchers from 蘑菇tv鈥檚 Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and the 蘑菇tv Health Sciences Center-New Orleans Department of Otolaryngology recently published a paper in Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology titled, 鈥淎 Modular Surgical Simulator for Microlaryngoscopy Using Standard Instruments and the Carbon Dioxide Laser.鈥�

Dr. Michael E. Dunham, faculty member in the 蘑菇tv Department of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, adjunct faculty member in 蘑菇tv Biological Engineering, and principal investigator on the project; co-authored the paper with Dr. Sarah Bressler (蘑菇tvHSC-NO); Dr. Lacey Adkins (蘑菇tvHSC-NO); Dr. Rohan Walvekar (蘑菇tvHSC-NO); Philip Jung, Ph.D. (蘑菇tv BE); Jorge Belgodere, Ph.D. (蘑菇tv BE); Adam Bao (蘑菇tv BE); Lizabeth Breaux (蘑菇tv BE); Hunter Lee (蘑菇tv BE); Soheil Saneei (蘑菇tv BE); Austin Veal (蘑菇tv BE); and John Carleton (BS).

In the paper, the team details how it created a modular design for a microlaryngoscopy simulator in CAD, or computer-aided design, software. Components used included plastic and stainless steel models of a standard operating laryngoscope and a cassette system for mounting synthetic models of the vocal folds with tumor phantom, which is made of natural biomaterials. All simulator parts, including the metallic laryngoscope model, were manufactured using 3D printing technology.

The resulting microlaryngeal surgical simulator demonstrated in the project proved to be a realistic alternative, economical, and easily assembled. Participants using the simulator felt that it faithfully represented the procedure to resect vocal fold lesions using a CO2 laser and allowed trainees to develop hand-eye coordination while using standard laryngeal instruments.

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