PLAYING DEAD

摘要

Dissect your average stuffed animal and you'll find nothing but polyester fibers. But poke around in FRED and you'll encounter an esophagus, stomach, duodenum, and colon. The flexible and rigid endoscopic training device is an anatomically correct doll that serves as a realistic, inexpensive, low-maintenance practice critter for veterinarians. The idea isn't actually to cut it open but to learn to perform minimally invasive procedures, like threading an endoscope down a dog's throat.