Anesthesia Pain Care Consultants Welcomes Boston Scientific’s Stimulator Simulator to South Florida

The simulation suite is a traveling bus that is used extensively by medical schools throughout the country. It features a robotic patient that models an actual patient, with a computerized image of the procedure and voice activation regarding pain. Doctors can practice their technique and the patient will respond, much the way the actual procedure unfolds.

Dr. Ira Fox, co-founder of APCC, and Viki DelCotto with the robotic patient.

Spinal cord stimulation is a treatment whereby a trained physician inserts a small, rechargeable implantable pulse generator under the patient’s skin. The generator produces electrical impulses that travel along leads. Electrode contacts deliver the impulses to specific locations on the spinal cord to mask the pain signal, reducing or eliminating the sensation of pain.