About The Simulator - Rowena

Designed by a practising neurosurgeon, Rowena a high fidelity product designed fo Neurosurgical Training Simulation. The simulator is available in both adult and paediatric variants for the teaching of basic neurosurgical techniques and approaches in conjunction with common surgical instrumentation.

With the recent widespread changes in medical training and career structure the exposure to operative surgery has, generally, been dramatically decreased. Furthermore, many national training bodies have decreed that simulation should be an intergral part of all surgical training programmes.

Neurosurgery has definitely lagged behind other specialities in this regard, in part due to the lack of suitable simulators. This is what we have set out to rectify.

The Realistic Operative Workstation for Educating Neurosurgical Apprentices (Rowena) is essentially a durable head base, featuring face, neck  ears etc, and with accurate internal skull base anatomy.