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Yoshimitsu Izawa1, Shuji Hishikawa, Tomohiro Muronoi
1Department of Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan This manuscript was presented in part at the World Society of Emergency Surgery 1st World Congress on 2nd July 2010 in Bologna Italy. alefor@jichi.ac.jp.
Abstract:
Surgical residents have insufficient opportunites to learn basic hemostatic skills from clinical experience alone. We designed an ex-vivo training system using porcine organs and a circulation pump to teach hemostatic skills. Residents were surveyed before and after the training and showed significant improvement in their self-confidence (1.83 ± 1.05 vs 3.33 ± 0.87, P < 0.01) on a 5 point Likert scale. This training may be effective to educate residents in basic hemostatic skills.
