Research Article
Teaching Emergency Surgical Skills for Trauma Resuscitation-Mechanical Simulator versus Animal Model
Table 1
Survey scores of the porcine versus TraumaMan for educational effectiveness of the surgical skills.
| | | Very Poor | Poor | Satisfactory | Very good | Excellent | | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| | ATLS surgical skills: porcine model scores | | | | | | | Chest tube | 0 | 0 | 13% (4) | 41% (13) | 47% (15) | | Pericardiocentesis | 0 | 7% (2) | 27% (8) | 53% (16) | 13% (4) | | DPL | 0 | 0 | 19% (6) | 58% (18) | 23% (7) | | Cricothyroidotomy | 0 | 6% (2) | 44% (14) | 34% (11) | 16% (5) |
| | ATLS surgical skills: TraumaMan scores | | | | | | | Chest tube | 0 | 3% (1) | 16% (5) | 41% (13) | 41% (13) | | Pericardiocentesis | 0 | 0 | 19% (6) | 66% (21) | 16% (5) | | DPL | 0 | 0 | 52% (16) | 39% (12) | 10% (3) | | Cricothyroidotomy | 0 | 3% (1) | 13% (4) | 38% (12) | 47% (15) |
| | | Porcine | TraumaMan | value |
| | Chest tube | 4.36 (SD 0.70) | 4.19 (SD 0.82) | | | Cricothyroidotomy | 3.58 (SD 0.84) | 4.29 (SD 0.81) | | | DPL | 3.94 (SD 0.67) | 3.48 (SD 0.67) | | | Pericardiocentesis | 3.55 (SD 0.78) | 3.97 (SD 0.59) | |
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