Moving From Organ Donation to Knowledge Donation: A Novel Opportunity for Surgical Education Following Organ Donation

The objective of this article is to share how our institution implemented the use of organ donors for surgical education following organ recovery. Despite technological advances, realistic surgical simulation models are lacking, leaving little opportunity to practice a procedure prior to performance...

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Autores principales: Wu, Peter, Rieger, Rebecca, McBride, Margaret M, Gray, Kayla, Mankin, James
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7567310/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33083175
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10473
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description The objective of this article is to share how our institution implemented the use of organ donors for surgical education following organ recovery. Despite technological advances, realistic surgical simulation models are lacking, leaving little opportunity to practice a procedure prior to performance on a living patient. Utilization of organ donors following organ donation offers an opportunity for life-like surgical simulation. We developed a pathway to use organ donor tissue in the post-recovery period for robotic simulation. We obtained support from our local Institutional Review Board, Ethics Committee, and organ procurement organization to create a “knowledge donor” program. Our knowledge donation program provided learners hands-on experience with a novel procedure and also provided organ donors another opportunity to express their altruism. We found that the process was well accepted by donor families and learners. We implemented a knowledge donation program at our hospital that provides valuable surgical experience. We discuss future directions for knowledge donation at our institution.
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spelling pubmed-75673102020-10-19 Moving From Organ Donation to Knowledge Donation: A Novel Opportunity for Surgical Education Following Organ Donation Wu, Peter Rieger, Rebecca McBride, Margaret M Gray, Kayla Mankin, James Cureus Medical Education The objective of this article is to share how our institution implemented the use of organ donors for surgical education following organ recovery. Despite technological advances, realistic surgical simulation models are lacking, leaving little opportunity to practice a procedure prior to performance on a living patient. Utilization of organ donors following organ donation offers an opportunity for life-like surgical simulation. We developed a pathway to use organ donor tissue in the post-recovery period for robotic simulation. We obtained support from our local Institutional Review Board, Ethics Committee, and organ procurement organization to create a “knowledge donor” program. Our knowledge donation program provided learners hands-on experience with a novel procedure and also provided organ donors another opportunity to express their altruism. We found that the process was well accepted by donor families and learners. We implemented a knowledge donation program at our hospital that provides valuable surgical experience. We discuss future directions for knowledge donation at our institution. Cureus 2020-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7567310/ /pubmed/33083175 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10473 Text en Copyright © 2020, Wu et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short Moving From Organ Donation to Knowledge Donation: A Novel Opportunity for Surgical Education Following Organ Donation
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7567310/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33083175
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10473
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