TissueDB/Materials/Cardboard

Cardboard is stiff, inexpensive paper board — flat sheet stock (cereal-box card, corrugated board) and ready-made tubes such as toilet-paper and paper-towel rolls. In surgical simulation it is cut, folded, or taped to shape as a rigid structural stand-in for firm anatomical landmarks and hollow airway walls, valued because it costs almost nothing and is available almost anywhere. It has been used to form the thyroid-cartilage landmark and the trachea-and-larynx core of a low-cost cricothyrotomy task trainer.

Tissues

Tissue	Visual	Tactile	Simulator	Notes
Cartilage	-	-	Cricothyrotomy Simulator (Aho)	Shaped cardboard piece taped to the Styrofoam as the thyroid-cartilage landmark.^[1]
Trachea	-	-	Cricothyrotomy Simulator (Aho)	Cardboard tube (an empty toilet-paper roll) as the trachea-and-larynx core.^[1]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Aho JM, Thiels CA, AlJamal YN, Ruparel RK, Rowse PG, Heller SF, Farley DR. "Every Surgical Resident Should Know How to Perform a Cricothyrotomy: An Inexpensive Cricothyrotomy Task Trainer for Teaching and Assessing Surgical Trainees." Journal of Surgical Education. 2015;72(4):658–661. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2014.12.012. PMID: 25703738.

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[aho2015-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Aho JM, Thiels CA, AlJamal YN, Ruparel RK, Rowse PG, Heller SF, Farley DR. "Every Surgical Resident Should Know How to Perform a Cricothyrotomy: An Inexpensive Cricothyrotomy Task Trainer for Teaching and Assessing Surgical Trainees." Journal of Surgical Education. 2015;72(4):658–661. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2014.12.012. PMID: 25703738.

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