How to make an aortic root replacement simulator at home

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Geoffrey Berg¹  John Butler¹  Vipin Zamvar²  Sai Prasad²  Edward T Brackenbury²  Maziar Khorsandi²  Kasra Shaikhrezai¹ 

[1] Department of Cardiac Surgery, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Glasgow, UK;Department of Cardiac Surgery, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

关键词: Aortic valve;    Aortic root replacement;    Education;   

Others  :  1133318
DOI  :  10.1186/s13019-015-0223-z

 received in 2014-10-30, accepted in 2015-01-26,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

There is a paucity of low-fidelity and cost-efficient simulators for training cardiac surgeons in the aspects of aortic root/valve replacement. In this study we addressed this training challenge by creating a low-fidelity, low-cost but, at the same time, anatomically realistic aortic root replacement simulator for training purposes. We used readily available, low cost materials such as lint roller tubes, foam sheet, press-and-seal bags, glue, plywood sheet, heat-shrink sleeving tubes and condoms as the basic material to create a low-fidelity, aortic root, training simulator. We constructed a multi-purpose, anatomically realistic aortic root simulator using the above materials, both time- and cost-efficiently, using the minimum of surgical equipment. This simulator is easy to construct and enables self-training in major techniques of aortic root replacement as well as in stentless valve implantation for trainees in cardiac surgery.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Shaikhrezai et al.; licensee BioMed Central.

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