TissueDB/Materials/Bicycle Inner Tube

Two bicycle inner tubes on a tiled floor. — Bicycle inner tubes (racing-bike tube in front, mountain-bike tube behind).
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Bicycle inner tube is thin butyl-rubber tubing, valued in simulation because it is elastic, scalpel-cuttable, locally sourced, and inexpensively replaceable. It can be used in medical simulation as a thin, cuttable skin or membrane layer.

Tissues

Tissue	Visual	Tactile	Simulator	Notes
Skin	-	-	Cricothyrotomy Simulator (White UW), Cricothyrotomy Simulator (D'Auria)	White UW build: Segment of inner tube draped over the assembled cervical-anatomy stack as the cutaneous skin layer; the trainee palpates the cricothyroid membrane through it and makes the skin incision through it.^[1] D'Auria build: The same bicycle-inner-tube skin layer concealing the sensor zones, so the cricothyroid membrane must be located by palpation; the D'Auria scoring overlay runs on the same University of Washington substrate.^[1]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 D'Auria D, Persia F. "Automatic evaluation of medical doctors' performances while using a cricothyrotomy simulator." 2014 IEEE 15th International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI 2014), 13–15 August 2014, pp. 514–519. DOI: 10.1109/IRI.2014.7051932.

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[dauria2014-1] 1.0 ^1.1 D'Auria D, Persia F. "Automatic evaluation of medical doctors' performances while using a cricothyrotomy simulator." 2014 IEEE 15th International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI 2014), 13–15 August 2014, pp. 514–519. DOI: 10.1109/IRI.2014.7051932.

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