TissueDB/Materials/Animal Skin

Animal skin is ex vivo, full-thickness skin, commonly porcine skin sourced from a butcher. Its texture, colour, suture hold and tissue-handling feel support suturing, incision and wound-closure practice. It is bought fresh or frozen and used as a skin-and-subcutaneous substrate laid over a trainer or on its own for suturing practice.

Tissues

Tissue	Visual	Tactile	Simulator	Notes
Skin			Cricothyrotomy Simulator (Muller)	Porcine skin placed over the laryngeal structures of the Strategic Operations 3-in-1 TCCC manikin as the external skin layer for cricothyrotomy incision. It gives the scalpel incision surface for the skin incision of the scalpel–finger–bougie technique, and the manikin is reset the same way every time, with a new section of porcine skin (US$1) covering the structures for each participant (Muller et al. 2020, pp. e1780, e1782). Exact cut (belly, shoulder, or other) not disambiguated in source.^[1]

References

↑ Muller KL, Facciolla CA, Monti J, Cronin A. "Impact of Succinct Training on Open Cricothyrotomy Performance: A Randomized, Prospective, Observational Study of U.S. Army First Responders." Military Medicine. 2020;185(9–10):e1779–e1786. DOI: 10.1093/milmed/usaa035. PMID 32567654.

Synonyms
Synonyms	animal skin; animal integument
Alternative Spellings & Case	Animal Skin; animal skin; pig skin; Pig Skin; pigskin; Pigskin; Pork Skin; pork skin
Regional / Language Names	piel animal (Spanish)
Forms / Product Names	fresh animal skin; frozen animal skin; full-thickness animal skin; glycerol-preserved animal skin
Material / Other Variants	porcine (pig) skin; pig skin; pork skin; pork rind; pigskin; goat skin; lamb skin
Redirect / Legacy Titles	Pork Skin

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[muller2020-1] Muller KL, Facciolla CA, Monti J, Cronin A. "Impact of Succinct Training on Open Cricothyrotomy Performance: A Randomized, Prospective, Observational Study of U.S. Army First Responders." Military Medicine. 2020;185(9–10):e1779–e1786. DOI: 10.1093/milmed/usaa035. PMID 32567654.

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