title: [Animal experimentation, computer simulation and surgical research].
abstract: We live in a digital world In medicine, computers are providing new tools for data collection, imaging, and treatment. During research and development of complex technologies and devices such as artificial hearts, computer simulation can provide more reliable information than experimentation on large animals. In these specific settings, animal experimentation should serve more to validate computer models of complex devices than to demonstrate their reliability.
authors.affiliation: Chirurgie cardiovasculaire, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, 20, rue Leblanc, 75015 Paris. alain.carpentier@academie-sciences.fr
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Carpentier
mesh_terms: D032761:Animal Experimentation; D000818:Animals; D035843:Biomedical Research; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans