Revista do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões ()

Teaching project: a low-cost swine model for chest tube insertion training

  • Fernando Antonio Campelo Spencer Netto,
  • Camila Garcia Sommer,
  • Michael de Mello Constantino,
  • Michel Cardoso,
  • Raphael Flávio Fachini Cipriani,
  • Renan Augusto Pereira

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/0100-69912016001012
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 43, no. 1
pp. 60 – 63

Abstract

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Objective: to describe and evaluate the acceptance of a low-cost chest tube insertion porcine model in a medical education project in the southwest of Paraná, Brazil. Methods: we developed a low-cost and low technology porcine model for teaching chest tube insertion and used it in a teaching project. Medical trainees - students and residents - received theoretical instructions about the procedure and performed thoracic drainage in this porcine model. After performing the procedure, the participants filled a feedback questionnaire about the proposed experimental model. This study presents the model and analyzes the questionnaire responses. Results: seventy-nine medical trainees used and evaluated the model. The anatomical correlation between the porcine model and human anatomy was considered high and averaged 8.1±1.0 among trainees. All study participants approved the low-cost porcine model for chest tube insertion. Conclusion: the presented low-cost porcine model for chest tube insertion training was feasible and had good acceptability among trainees. This model has potential use as a teaching tool in medical education.

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