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A skin abscess model for teaching incision and drainage procedures

BACKGROUND: Skin and soft tissue infections are increasingly prevalent clinical problems, and it is important for health care practitioners to be well trained in how to treat skin abscesses. A realistic model of abscess incision and drainage will allow trainees to learn and practice this basic physi...

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Autores principales: Fitch, Michael T, Manthey, David E, McGinnis, Henderson D, Nicks, Bret A, Pariyadath, Manoj
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2453116/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18598345
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-8-38
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author Fitch, Michael T
Manthey, David E
McGinnis, Henderson D
Nicks, Bret A
Pariyadath, Manoj
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description BACKGROUND: Skin and soft tissue infections are increasingly prevalent clinical problems, and it is important for health care practitioners to be well trained in how to treat skin abscesses. A realistic model of abscess incision and drainage will allow trainees to learn and practice this basic physician procedure. METHODS: We developed a realistic model of skin abscess formation to demonstrate the technique of incision and drainage for educational purposes. The creation of this model is described in detail in this report. RESULTS: This model has been successfully used to develop and disseminate a multimedia video production for teaching this medical procedure. Clinical faculty and resident physicians find this model to be a realistic method for demonstrating abscess incision and drainage. CONCLUSION: This manuscript provides a detailed description of our model of abscess incision and drainage for medical education. Clinical educators can incorporate this model into skills labs or demonstrations for teaching this basic procedure.
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spelling pubmed-24531162008-07-11 A skin abscess model for teaching incision and drainage procedures Fitch, Michael T Manthey, David E McGinnis, Henderson D Nicks, Bret A Pariyadath, Manoj BMC Med Educ Technical Advance BACKGROUND: Skin and soft tissue infections are increasingly prevalent clinical problems, and it is important for health care practitioners to be well trained in how to treat skin abscesses. A realistic model of abscess incision and drainage will allow trainees to learn and practice this basic physician procedure. METHODS: We developed a realistic model of skin abscess formation to demonstrate the technique of incision and drainage for educational purposes. The creation of this model is described in detail in this report. RESULTS: This model has been successfully used to develop and disseminate a multimedia video production for teaching this medical procedure. Clinical faculty and resident physicians find this model to be a realistic method for demonstrating abscess incision and drainage. CONCLUSION: This manuscript provides a detailed description of our model of abscess incision and drainage for medical education. Clinical educators can incorporate this model into skills labs or demonstrations for teaching this basic procedure. BioMed Central 2008-07-03 /pmc/articles/PMC2453116/ /pubmed/18598345 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-8-38 Text en Copyright © 2008 Fitch et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Fitch, Michael T
Manthey, David E
McGinnis, Henderson D
Nicks, Bret A
Pariyadath, Manoj
A skin abscess model for teaching incision and drainage procedures
title A skin abscess model for teaching incision and drainage procedures
title_full A skin abscess model for teaching incision and drainage procedures
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title_full_unstemmed A skin abscess model for teaching incision and drainage procedures
title_short A skin abscess model for teaching incision and drainage procedures
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2453116/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18598345
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-8-38
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