title: Teaching venous cutdown techniques with models.
abstract: A venous cutdown may be required in emergency situations in order to establish an intravenous line. Subclavian vein catheterization is now widely used, but may result in significant complications and is often inappropriate when a safer distal vein cutdown could be performed. Inanimate models can be used to teach this valuable technique and have the advantage of availability for repeated practice.
mesh_terms: D002404:Catheterization; D004630:Emergencies; D006801:Humans; D013664:Teaching Materials; D014680:Veins / Q000601:surgery*