Fresh frozen cadavers in surgical teaching: a gelatine arterial infusion technique

摘要

Background: Fresh frozen human cadavers have been used at the Clinical Training and Evaluation Centre, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA for years and are an excellent model for surgical dissection thanks to their representative tissue quality. Differentiation between artery and vein can be difficult as both collapse post mortem. A historical technique was therefore refined to increase arterial rigidity using gelatine prior to freezing.