Cardiac surgery is one of the most complex medicine areas. Every movement can decide on life and death. At the Med Uni Graz, two emergency situations were played by extremely realistic – with the latest simulation technology and a real heart.
“CSI: Graz” is the name of the training series of the Med Uni, which should help students choose their future area. As a rule, the “surgical student information afternoons” takes place in May, now they have been brought forward and an extensive course together with the Clinical Skills Center (CSC), the leading medical skills training center in Europe.
Dozens of young doctors are at hand
And the students came in large numbers. A handful of interested parties expected that ultimately almost 50 potential doctors wanted to listen and also wanted to create a hand when it came to performing a life -saving heart valve operation and treating a patient with an artificial lung in intensive care. “You can see how great the interest is,” says CSC -Baas Thomas Road separator. “They shouldn’t be there at all, that’s not a mandatory event.”
The event was a “hybrid simulation”: real tissue is treated in an artificial surgical environment. In this case it was a pig’s heart that was transplanted in a first aid pop. Under the leadership of the experienced heart surgeon Ismar Ovcina, the students used a flap rador of the 3D printer. The second group was confronted with an emergency in the lifelike intensive care unit of the CSC.
“Incredible infrastructure” is unparalleled in Austria
Here the deputy surgical boss Igor Knez was supervised. “It is a very interesting spectacle in this incredible infrastructure that the other universities make us jealous in Austria,” he says. The intensive simulator costs around 60,000 with Euro-Well invested in money: “The students who lend a hand here in their spare time benefit extremely from these options. In the normal curriculum it would be impossible to push a heart surgery through a surgery.
In the case of heart surgery acute cases, interns usually do not even have the option to follow the vital processes, the space on the chest is not sufficient. The spit turns around in the CSC rooms: “The students are in the front row. You can feel the tight space and how thin the surgical thread can be, “says Weggen separator.
“Important also for the psyche”
For heart surgeon Knez this is a particularly important aspect of high -tech simulation: “It is also good to tackle it for the students’ psyche. Here you will notice whether our extensive field could be something for you.
Source: Krone
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