TissueDB/Materials/Sausage

Sausage is a low-cost, widely available processed-meat product with a soft, tubular form and a colour resembling exposed bowel. In medical simulation those properties let it stand in for intestinal loops (bowel) as protruding viscera.^[1] Being perishable, sausage-based models are effectively single-use.^[1]

Tissues

Tissue	Visual	Tactile	Simulator	Notes
Bowel	-	-	Abdominal Wall Defect Simulator (Medeiros)	Sausage of about 25 cm, listed in the source's materials table for the gastroschisis and omphalocele models.^[1]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Medeiros GA, Gualberto IJN, da Silva CHND, Diniz AMB, de Santana JBF, Volpe FP, Gadde R, Mazzo A, de Oliveira RC, Sbragia L. Development of a low-cost congenital abdominal wall defect simulator (WALL-GO) for undergraduate medical education: a validation study. BMC Medical Education 2023;23(1):966. DOI: 10.1186/s12909-023-04929-3. PMID 38102605. PMC PMC10724958.

Page data
Keywords	sausage, intestinal loops, bowel, viscera, low-cost simulation, WALL-GO, TissueDB
SDG
Authors	Arturopelayo
License	CC-BY-SA-4.0
Language	English (en)
Related	0 subpages, 3 pages link here
Views	0 page views (analytics)
Created	June 20, 2026 by Arturo Pelayo
Last edit	August 5, 2026 by Arturo Pelayo
Cite as	Arturopelayo (2026). "TissueDB/Materials/Sausage". Appropedia. Retrieved August 23, 2026.
API queries	basic, semantic, html, files, more

[medeiros2023-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Medeiros GA, Gualberto IJN, da Silva CHND, Diniz AMB, de Santana JBF, Volpe FP, Gadde R, Mazzo A, de Oliveira RC, Sbragia L. Development of a low-cost congenital abdominal wall defect simulator (WALL-GO) for undergraduate medical education: a validation study. BMC Medical Education 2023;23(1):966. DOI: 10.1186/s12909-023-04929-3. PMID 38102605. PMC PMC10724958.

[1]