title: Practical guidelines for setting up neurosurgery skills training cadaver laboratory in India.
abstract: Though the necessity of cadaver dissection is felt by the medical fraternity, and described as early as 600 BC, in India, there are no practical guidelines available in the world literature for setting up a basic cadaver dissection laboratory for neurosurgery skills training. Hands-on dissection practice on microscopic and endoscopic procedures is essential in technologically demanding modern neurosurgery training where ethical issues, cost constraints, medico-legal pitfalls, and resident duty time restrictions have resulted in lesser opportunities to learn. Collaboration of anatomy, forensic medicine, and neurosurgery is essential for development of a workflow of cadaver procurement, preservation, storage, dissection, and disposal along with setting up the guidelines for ethical and legal concerns.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Ashish
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Suri
authors.forename: Tara Sankar
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Roy
authors.forename: Sanjeev
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lalwani
authors.forename: Rama Chandra
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Deo
authors.forename: Manjul
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tripathi
authors.forename: Renu
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dhingra
authors.forename: Daya Nand
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Bhardwaj
authors.forename: Bhawani Shankar
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Sharma
mesh_terms: D002102:Cadaver; D004210:Dissection / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D009493:Neurosurgery / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education* / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods