The Chicken Aorta as a Simulation-Training Model for Microvascular Surgery Training

As a technically demanding skill, microsurgery is taught in the lab, in the form of a course of variable length (depending on the centre). Microsurgical training courses usually use a mixture of non-living and live animal simulation models. In the literature, a plethora of microsurgical training mod...

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Main Authors: Savitha Ramachandran, Christopher Hoe-Kong Chui, Bien-Keem Tan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 2013-07-01
Series:Archives of Plastic Surgery
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Online Access:http://e-aps.org/Synapse/Data/PDFData/2023APS/aps-40-327.pdf
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Summary:As a technically demanding skill, microsurgery is taught in the lab, in the form of a course of variable length (depending on the centre). Microsurgical training courses usually use a mixture of non-living and live animal simulation models. In the literature, a plethora of microsurgical training models have been described, ranging from low to high fidelity models. Given the high costs associated with live animal models, cheaper alternatives are coming into vogue. In this paper we describe the use of the chicken aorta as a simple and cost effective low fidelity microsurgical simulation model for training.
ISSN:2234-6163
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