Peritoneal dialysis is a widely used home based therapy for people with advanced kidney disease. It enables greater autonomy and reduces the need for frequent hospital visits. But outcomes hinge on one thing: performing peritoneal access correctly.
The challenge of peritoneal access
Peritoneal dialysis lets many patients receive treatment at home, reducing hospital visits. It helps maintain independence and continuity of care. But success comes down to one thing: performing the access procedure correctly.
A realistic, repeatable training environment
Haptic training models help address this need by bringing realistic practice into a safe environment. A peritoneal dialysis training pad enables clinicians to rehearse the entire access pathway in a controlled setting, step by step, with the ability to repeat the procedure as often as necessary. This supports skill building and consistency before translating the technique into the clinical setting and ultimately to patient care.
The pad is designed to mimic the abdominal wall through clearly differentiated tissue layers, mirroring the sequence clinicians encounter in real practice. This allows users to feel authentic resistance during insertion, understand how each layer behaves, and refine the depth control and positioning needed to achieve safe, effective peritoneal access.
Designed for modern clinical training
The training pad integrates smoothly with the tools clinicians already use, from ultrasound to electrosurgical instruments, and it can be used within workflows that involve robotic systems and navigation technologies. As a result, it supports both standard and robot assisted training scenarios, staying consistent with how procedures are increasingly performed in modern clinical practice.
Because it is designed for repeated use under the same conditions, the pad enables consistent training across different teams, institutions and education programmes. At the same time, our in house formulation is built to preserve the quality of tactile feedback session after session, helping performance remain reliable over time.
Supporting safer procedures and better outcomes
Effective training is fundamental to patient safety. When clinicians can train in realistic conditions, they develop confidence, refine their skills, and deliver more consistent performance once they transition to the clinical setting.
For hospitals and care providers, training centres and educators, as well as industry partners, realistic peritoneal dialysis training models provide a practical way to build procedural skills, promote consistent best practice and ultimately support better outcomes for patients.
