TissueDB/Materials/Synthetic skin pad

A skin-coloured silicone practice pad with straight, curved, V and Y incisions, held while a suture is placed — A practice suture pad with pre-cut incisions of several shapes, sutured with a needle holder and forceps.
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A synthetic skin pad or overlay is a purchased, multi-layered polymer sheet. It serves as a tissue-simulating material for percutaneous procedures and landmark palpation. Its cheapest form is tattoo practice skin, sold for tattoo artists to rehearse on and also listed as synthetic tattoo skin or a tattoo practice model. It reaches the bench in two forms. Both are the same class of bought rubbery skin, and they differ only in shape. The first is a flat pad, cut or clamped over a substrate for puncture. The second is a shaped overlay, laid over a manikin or model surface. Trainees feel the underlying structures through it. Builders can substitute equivalent multi-layer synthetic skins from other manufacturers.

Tissues

Tissue	Visual	Tactile	Simulator	Notes
Skin	-	-	Peripheral Intravenous Catheterization Trainer, Bronchoscopy-Guided Percutaneous Dilatational Tracheostomy Simulator (Kattan), Pediatric Front-of-Neck Access Simulator (Kovatch)	As tattoo practice skin: the puncture surface (epidermis). As a multi-layer synthetic skin pad: punctured for needle and dilator passage over the ex-vivo bovine trachea in the Kattan BG-PDT trainer (15 × 30 cm, 6 mm, 3-layered, from Training & Competence, Santiago, Chile; ~9 iterations per pad, at approximately US$2.2 per use).^[1] As a shaped overlay in the Kovatch front-of-neck trainer: outer neck skin overlaid on the embedded silicone airway. Palpated to find the laryngeal cartilages and cricothyroid membrane before needle cricothyroidotomy. Supplied as a shaped overlay rather than a flat pad. A commercial elastomer skin covering shaped to a body region. The trainee palpates the underlying structures through it. The source used a One World DMG product.^[2]

References

↑ Kattan E, Vera M, Putz F, Corvetto M, De la Fuente R, Bravo S. Design and Evaluation of a Low-Cost Bronchoscopy-Guided Percutaneous Dilatational Tracheostomy Simulator. Simulation in Healthcare 2019;14(6):415–419. DOI: 10.1097/SIH.0000000000000399. PMID 31804426.
↑ Kovatch KJ, Powell AR, Green K, Reighard CL, Green GE, Gauger VT, Rooney DM, Zopf DA. Development and Multidisciplinary Preliminary Validation of a 3-Dimensional-Printed Pediatric Airway Model for Emergency Airway Front-of-Neck Access Procedures. Anesthesia & Analgesia 2020;130(2):445–451. DOI 10.1213/ANE.0000000000003774. PMID 30234534.

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[kattan2019-1] Kattan E, Vera M, Putz F, Corvetto M, De la Fuente R, Bravo S. Design and Evaluation of a Low-Cost Bronchoscopy-Guided Percutaneous Dilatational Tracheostomy Simulator. Simulation in Healthcare 2019;14(6):415–419. DOI: 10.1097/SIH.0000000000000399. PMID 31804426.

[kovatch2020-2] Kovatch KJ, Powell AR, Green K, Reighard CL, Green GE, Gauger VT, Rooney DM, Zopf DA. Development and Multidisciplinary Preliminary Validation of a 3-Dimensional-Printed Pediatric Airway Model for Emergency Airway Front-of-Neck Access Procedures. Anesthesia & Analgesia 2020;130(2):445–451. DOI 10.1213/ANE.0000000000003774. PMID 30234534.

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