title: [Education and training in microsurgery without experiments on live animals].
abstract: A theoretical concept of a training programme for microsurgery is presented. This programme--as an alternative to the presently existing types of microsurgical education using the living laboratory animal--pursues the training of microsurgical skills exclusively on non-living objects. This paper describes the training laboratory as well as four training procedures, each using separate objects with an increasing degree of difficulty and educational benefit: surgical glove; silastic tube; sciatic nerve of a chicken; perfused coronary arteries of a pig's heart. Completion of this programme conveyed to the trainee the same basic abilities as training on a living laboratory animal.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Handchirurgie und Rheumachirurgie, Orthopädischen Universitätsklinik, Evangelischen Krankenhaus Essen-Werden.
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Freys
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Koob
mesh_terms: D000826:Animal Testing Alternatives; D000818:Animals; D002645:Chickens; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000601:surgery; D008866:Microsurgery / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D012584:Sciatic Nerve / Q000601:surgery; D013536:Suture Techniques; D013552:Swine
vernacular_title: Ausbildung und Training in der Mikrochirurgie ohne Versuche am lebenden Tier.