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This work presents the design a low cost obstetric simulator allowing precise identification of the fetal position in a simulated birth canal. The system consists on a female pelvis, a custom-made fetal mannequin, a virtual 3d representation, a visual display and an user interface to show in real time what happens inside the birth canal. Students are often unable not only to identify correctly the fetal head position, but also to discriminate between the two fontanels, for this reason the simulator eBSim can help them to train this ability and could be an important instrument for the instructors to objectively assess the clinical skill of each student.
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Andrea Paci, Simone Marcutti and Serena Ricci contributed equally to this work.
The authors thanks Andrea Canessa, Agostino Gibaldi, Filippo Sante, Edoardo Bellanti and Giorgio Carlini for their help in the inizial stage of the work.
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Paci, A. et al. (2016). eBSim: Development of a Low-Cost Obstetric Simulator. In: De Paolis, L., Mongelli, A. (eds) Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Computer Graphics. AVR 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9769. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40651-0_9
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