An Inexpensive Cardiac Bypass Cannulation Simulator: Facing Challenges of Modern Training

• Published in: The Annals of thoracic surgery Vol. 89; no. 6; pp. 2056 - 2057
• Main Authors: Schiralli, Matthew P., MD, Hicks, George L., MD, Angona, Ron E., CCP, Gangemi, James J., MD
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Elsevier Inc 01.06.2010; Elsevier
• Subjects: Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy; Animals; Biological and medical sciences; Cardiology. Vascular system; Cardiopulmonary Bypass - education; Cardiopulmonary Bypass - methods; Cardiothoracic Surgery; Catheterization - methods; Medical sciences; Pneumology; Surgery; Surgery (general aspects). Transplantations, organ and tissue grafts. Graft diseases; Surgery of the heart; Suture Techniques; Swine; Thoracic Surgery - education; 2; Heart; Treatment; Bypass; Surgery; Anesthesia; Cannulation; Circulatory system; Cardiology; Simulator
• ISSN: 0003-4975; 1552-6259
• DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.07.046

The importance of surgical simulation has grown in the quickly changing climate of modern surgical training. As the expectation of basic skills acquisition has shifted to forums outside the operating room, residency programs have struggled to provide realistic teaching simulations for their trainees. We have developed and tested a realistic and low-cost porcine cannulation model. This model provided a platform for both technical and cognitive skills acquisition at the first session of the cardiothoracic or “CT Surgery Boot Camp” during the summer of 2008.