TissueDB/Materials/Cigarette Paper

Cigarette paper is a thin, lightweight, semi-translucent paper. It is delicate and friable, and becomes soft and pliable when moistened — properties that let it stand in for thin, fragile tissue in medical simulation. In the one simulator that uses it, two cigarettes have their ends sutured together to practise the enterocutaneous anastomosis step of colostomy creation in a newborn.

Tissues

Tissue	Visual	Tactile	Simulator	Notes
Neonatal bowel			Neonatal Enterocutaneous Anastomosis Simulator	A pair of cigarettes is the entire model.^[1] The thin cigarette paper, especially when moistened, stands in for the fragile bowel tissue of a neonate for gentle-tissue-handling practice, and one pair accommodates about four sutures.^[1]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Wong J, Udeigwe-Okeke C, Ameh E. Colostomy in Newborns training module. Appropedia, 2021. Available at: https://www.appropedia.org/Colostomy_in_Newborns. The moistening and pair-of-cigarettes statements are on the module's Phase 2 page: Neonatal Enterocutaneous Anastomosis Simulator. Not indexed in PubMed; primary source linked directly.

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[colostomy-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Wong J, Udeigwe-Okeke C, Ameh E. Colostomy in Newborns training module. Appropedia, 2021. Available at: https://www.appropedia.org/Colostomy_in_Newborns. The moistening and pair-of-cigarettes statements are on the module's Phase 2 page: Neonatal Enterocutaneous Anastomosis Simulator. Not indexed in PubMed; primary source linked directly.

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