Latex vascular injection as method for enhanced neurosurgical training and skills

Julio C. Pérez-Cruz, Laboratorio de Técnicas Anatómicas y Material Didactico, Escuela Superior de Medicina, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico.
Mario A. Macías-Duvignau, Laboratorio de Técnicas Anatómicas y Material Didactico, Escuela Superior de Medicina, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico.
Gervith Reyes-Soto, Department of Head and Neck, Unidad de Neurociencias, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, Mexico City, Mexico.
Oscar O. Gasca-González, Departamento de Anatomía, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico.
Matias Baldoncini, Laboratory of Microsurgical Neuroanatomy, School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Franklin Miranda-Solís, Laboratorio de Neuroanatomía, Centro de Investigación de Anatomía y Fisiología Alto Andina, Universidad Andina del Cusco, Cusco, Peru.
Luis Delgado-Reyes, Departamento de Anatomía, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico.
Carlos Ovalles, Department of Neurosurgery, General Hospital, Durango, Mexico.
Carlos Catillo-Rangel, Department of Neurosurgery, Servicio of the 1ro de Octubre Hospital of the Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado, Mexico City, Mexico.
Evgeniy Goncharov, Traumatology and Orthopedics Center, Central Clinical Hospital of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
Renat Nurmukhametov, Neurological Surgery, Peoples Friendship University of Russia, Moscow, Russia.
Michael T. Lawton, Department of Neurosurgery, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, United States.
Nicola Montemurro, Department of Neurosurgery, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Pisana (AOUP), Pisa, Italy.
Manuel De Encarnacion Ramirez, Neurological Surgery, Peoples Friendship University of Russia, Moscow, Russia.

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Article

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Tridimensional medical knowledge of human anatomy is a key step in the undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, especially in surgical fields. Training simulation before real surgical procedures is necessary to develop clinical competences and to minimize surgical complications. METHODS: Latex injection of vascular system in brain and in head-neck segment is made after washing out of the vascular system and fixation of the specimen before and after latex injection. RESULTS: Using this latex injection technique, the vascular system of 90% of brains and 80% of head-neck segments are well-perfused. Latex-injected vessels maintain real appearance compared to silicone, and more flexible vessels compared to resins. Besides, latex makes possible a better perfusion of small vessels. CONCLUSIONS: Latex vascular injection technique of the brain and head-neck segment is a simulation model for neurosurgical training based on real experiencing to improve surgical skills and surgical results.

Publication Date

1-1-2024

Publication Title

Frontiers in surgery

ISSN

2296-875X

Volume

11

First Page

1366190

PubMed ID

38464665

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.3389/fsurg.2024.1366190

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