title: SimLife a new model of simulation using a pulsated revascularized and reventilated cadaver for surgical education.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Alike becoming a pilot requires competences, acquisition of technical skills is essential to become a surgeon. Halsted's theory on surgical education "See one, do one, and teach one" is not currently compatible with the reality of socio-economic constraints of the operating room, the patient's safety demand and the reduction of residents' work hours.
  
  
  METHODS
  In all countries, this brings mandatory to simulation education for surgery resident's training. Many models are available: video trainers or pelvi-trainers, computed simulator, animal models or human cadaver… Human cadaveric dissection has long been used to teach surgical anatomy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Surgery on human cadaveric model brings greatest accuracy to the haptic characteristics of surgical procedures. Learning in an appropriate and realistic simulation context increases the level of acquisition of the residents' skills and reduces stress and anxiety when performing real procedures.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We present a technique of perfusion and ventilation of a fresh human cadaver that restores pulsatile circulation and respiratory movements of the model.
authors.affiliation: CHU de Poitiers, Université de Poitiers, Service d'Urologie, 2, rue de la Milétrie, BP 577, 86021 Poitiers cedex, France.
authors.forename: P O
authors.initials: PO
authors.lastname: Delpech
authors.affiliation: Université de Poitiers, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, ABS Lab (Laboratoire d'Anatomie, Biomécanique et Simulation), 6, rue de la Milétrie, BP 199, 86034 Poitiers cedex, France; CHU de Poitiers, Université de Poitiers, Service de Chirurgie Viscérale et endocrinienne, 2, rue de la Milétrie, BP 577, 86021 Poitiers cedex, France.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Danion
authors.affiliation: Université de Poitiers, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, ABS Lab (Laboratoire d'Anatomie, Biomécanique et Simulation), 6, rue de la Milétrie, BP 199, 86034 Poitiers cedex, France.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Oriot
authors.affiliation: Université de Poitiers, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, ABS Lab (Laboratoire d'Anatomie, Biomécanique et Simulation), 6, rue de la Milétrie, BP 199, 86034 Poitiers cedex, France; CHU de Poitiers, Université de Poitiers, Service de Chirurgie Viscérale et endocrinienne, 2, rue de la Milétrie, BP 577, 86021 Poitiers cedex, France.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Richer
authors.affiliation: Université de Poitiers, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, ABS Lab (Laboratoire d'Anatomie, Biomécanique et Simulation), 6, rue de la Milétrie, BP 199, 86034 Poitiers cedex, France; Université de Poitiers, Institut P'CNRS, ISAE-ENSMA, UPR 3346, 11, boulevard Marie-et-Pierre-Curie, 86962 Futuroscope Chasseneuil, France.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Breque
authors.affiliation: Université de Poitiers, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, ABS Lab (Laboratoire d'Anatomie, Biomécanique et Simulation), 6, rue de la Milétrie, BP 199, 86034 Poitiers cedex, France; CHU de Poitiers, Université de Poitiers, Service de Chirurgie Viscérale et endocrinienne, 2, rue de la Milétrie, BP 577, 86021 Poitiers cedex, France. Electronic address: j.p.faure@chu-poitiers.fr.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Faure
mesh_terms: D002102:Cadaver; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004210:Dissection / Q000193:education*; D006257:Head / Q000098:blood supply*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D009333:Neck / Q000098:blood supply*; D009873:Operating Rooms; D060726:Torso / Q000098:blood supply*
keywords: Cadaver; Recirculation; Surgical simulation