[Effectiveness of a Simulation of the Donor Surgery with Other Extraction Teams to Improve Various Problems in...

The pulmonary extraction from a brain-dead donor is one of the important elements for the success of lung transplantation, but the current scarcity of practical training opportunities is a major problem. We performed a simulation of the donor surgery of multiple organs using a pig with other extraction teams to provide more training opportunities. The effectiveness of this simulation lies in its potential to improve the surgical procedure;furthermore, it may solve problems associated with communicating with other extraction teams. However, it is difficult to judge whether the donor lung is suitable for transplantation, as it would be inappropriate to use such a lung for simulation in training. Since this simulation system is considered to be effective to solve various problems in the current donor surgery, it should be available more frequently to improve a technical level of the donor surgery and to aid surgeons in the rapid implementation of next-generation techniques.