Redesigned a lapraroscopic surgical skills trainer for the repair of tracheoesophageal fistula in neonatal patients. Improvements included a fully-digital design (previous design was an artisan sculpt and hand-made molds), replacing the monolithic chest with a reusable frame and a chest wall cartridge that can be swapped out when it becomes worn.
The fully consumable portion of the simulated esophageal pouches and trachea were also replaced with an improved cartridge system that allowed consumables to be swapped out quickly and without tools. I also designed the molds for creating thin walled simulated esophageal tissues (<1mm) and overmolding them to the simulated trachea with a modified silicone allowing for blunt dissection by trainees.
