TY - JOUR
T1 - Cadaver-based abscess model for medical training
AU - Ellis, Michael Stanley
AU - Nelson, Joseph T.
AU - Kartchner, Jeffrey Zane
AU - Yousef, Karl Andrew
AU - Adamas-Rappaport, William J.
AU - Amini, Richard
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank Jared and Kat Alverado for their help in the cadaver lab. Their work is vital to ongoing medical education at numerous institutions. We are fortunate to have them. This study did not require ethics approval, as the College of Medicine (University of Arizona) currently conducts education-related evaluation and research activities under a site level institutional review board “exempt” approval. This approval is exempt as “research conducted in established or commonly accepted educational settings, involving normal educational practices, such as research on regular and special education instructional strategies”.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Ellis et al.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Ultrasound imaging is a rapid and noninvasive tool ideal for the imaging of soft tissue infections and is associated with a change of clinician management plans in 50% of cases. We developed a realistic skin abscess diagnostic and therapeutic training model using fresh frozen cadavers and common, affordable materials. Details for construction of the model and suggested variations are presented. This cadaver-based abscess model produces high-quality sonographic images with internal echogenicity similar to a true clinical abscess, and is ideal for teaching sonographic diagnostic skills in addition to the technical skills of incision and drainage or needle aspiration.
AB - Ultrasound imaging is a rapid and noninvasive tool ideal for the imaging of soft tissue infections and is associated with a change of clinician management plans in 50% of cases. We developed a realistic skin abscess diagnostic and therapeutic training model using fresh frozen cadavers and common, affordable materials. Details for construction of the model and suggested variations are presented. This cadaver-based abscess model produces high-quality sonographic images with internal echogenicity similar to a true clinical abscess, and is ideal for teaching sonographic diagnostic skills in addition to the technical skills of incision and drainage or needle aspiration.
KW - Abscess model
KW - Ultrasound
KW - Ultrasound education
KW - Ultrasound-guided needle aspiration
KW - Undergraduate medical education
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U2 - 10.2147/AMEP.S124648
DO - 10.2147/AMEP.S124648
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85053431006
SN - 1179-7258
VL - 8
SP - 85
EP - 88
JO - Advances in Medical Education and Practice
JF - Advances in Medical Education and Practice
ER -