Plastination: a contribution to orthopedic surgery teaching in small animals

  • Santiago Andrés Audisio UNLPam
  • Perla Araceli Torres UNRN
  • Pablo Guillermo Vaquero UNLPam. Facultad de Cs. Veterinarias
  • Edgardo Verna UNLPam. Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias

Keywords:

Dog, Surgery, Orthopaedic, Plastination

Abstract

The teaching of surgical techniques in under graduated courses requires materials which will allow the students to develop psychomotor skills to perform surgical procedures of osteosynthesis. The authors evaluated the benefits of the use of plastinated specimens in the teaching of the surgical resolution of femoral fractures. Twenty two students who were taking the Surgical Technique and Pathology Course, School of Veterinary Sciences-National University of LaPampa. The students worked in pairs, playing the roles of surgeon and assistant, to reduce and stabilize a transversal diaphisiary fracture of a canine femur previously plastinated using the retrograde intramedular pinning technique. The material was satisfactorily evaluated by means of students opinion surveys, and the graphic register of the experience corroborated the possibility to perform the technique described in the bibliography in the plastinated specimens. All the pairs of students acted as members of a surgical team, reducing and stabilizing the fracture in a satisfactory way. 80% of the surveys found similarities between the plastinated specimens and the real ones. The authors have found that of the six procedures required to solve a fracture, the reduction procedure is the only one that cannot be performed in a similar way to reality. They conclude that 1plastinated models offer a valid model for undergraduates who need to acquire psychomotor skills and to be trained in the performance of intramedular pinning procedures.

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Author Biographies

Santiago Andrés Audisio, UNLPam

Docente investigador con cargo en la Cátedra Técnica y Patología Quirúrgica. Las principales áreas de
conocimiento incluyen patologías quirúrgicas, cirugía general, cirugía ortopédica, cirugía plástica y reparadora,
regeneración ósea, terapias regenerativas

Perla Araceli Torres, UNRN

Investigación: Doctora en Ciencias Veterinarias. Investigación aplicada: oncología y aspectos reproductivos asociados. Tecnicas inmunohistoquímicas en la expresión de receptores hormonales. Docencia: Especialista en Docencia Universitaria. Especialista en Evaluación. Capacitación Docente. Investigación en docencia: Seguimiento y evaluación de Cohortes. Metodologías activas de aprendizaje. Técnicas de trabajo activo basadas en grupos. Extensión: Trabajo social, tenencia responsable de mascotas, zoonosis.

Pablo Guillermo Vaquero, UNLPam. Facultad de Cs. Veterinarias

Práctica profesional en cirugía, clínica ,radiología en pequeños y grandes animales. Servicio en el Hospital Escuela de Animales Pequeños de la Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias. UNLPam.

Edgardo Verna, UNLPam. Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias

Docente Investigador.  Técnica  y Patología Quirúrgica. Trabajo  orientado hacia el diagnostico por imàgenes, radiología y ecografía. Práctica diaria en caballos deportivos y pequeños animales.

Published

2017-07-20

How to Cite

Audisio, S. A., Torres, P. A., Vaquero, P. G., & Verna, E. (2017). Plastination: a contribution to orthopedic surgery teaching in small animals. Ciencia Veterinaria, 15(1), 137–144. Retrieved from https://ojs.unlpam.edu.ar/index.php/veterinaria/article/view/1830

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