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DOI: 10.5999/aps.2013.40.4.327
The Chicken Aorta as a Simulation-Training Model for Microvascular Surgery Training
This article was presented at the inaugural meeting of the International Microsurgery Simulation Society on June 30, 2012 at the Queen Mary, University of London Mile End Campus, in London, UK.
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.
The authors would like to thank Miss Song, Microsurgical Laboratory Technologist and Dr. Chew Khong Yik for their contributions to this article.
Publication History
Received: 15 February 2013
Accepted: 13 May 2013
Article published online:
01 May 2022
© 2013. The Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons. This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, permitting unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction so long as the original work is given appropriate credit. Contents may not be used for commercial purposes. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
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