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Ask Vanderbilt To Trauma Train With Non-Animal Systems Only
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Dr. Jeffrey R. Balser, Dean, School of Medicine and Vanderbilt University Medical
Center Office of Research:
Please permanently switch to validated non-animal systems for all Vanderbilt
University School of Medicine Advanced Trauma Life Support
(ATLS) classes. I urge you to join over 90% of U.S. and Canadian facilities that
exclusively use human-focused medical simulators to train
students.
I understand one Vanderbilt ATLS program required trainees to slice the airways of
live pigs to place tubes and needles in the animals’ hearts
and chest cavities. Emergency medical training is better served by relevant and humane
non-animal modes. TraumaMan's anatomical body
facilitates practice of lifesaving skills and reduces trainee dropout rates. The
American College of Surgeons endorses TraumaMan System,
SimMan, human cadavers and other synthetic models.
Overall, animal-free research cuts costs and improves proficiency. For example, a New
England Journal of Medicine article highlights the "very
detailed feedback and more subtle measurement of trainee performance" gained from
virtual reality simulators.
Dr. Emad Aboud — co-inventor of a system that pumps specially dyed water into a
human cadaver’s vessels and arteries — says animal-free
models are cheaper and more accurate. "This is the perfect alternative to the use of
live animals in surgical training," claims Aboud, a
neurosurgeon fellow at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
If you haven’t done so already, I encourage Vanderbilt to update its trauma-
management training with methods more relevant to human
anatomy and surgery. Killing animals is no longer viable, given the accessibility of
capable non-animal technologies.
Thank you,
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Office Of Research
Jeffrey R. Balser, M.D., Ph.D.,
Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs
Dean, School of Medicine
D-3300 MCN 2104
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
1211 Medical Center Drive
Nashville, TN 37232
ph: 615-936-3030
email: jeff.balser@vanderbilt.edu
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Gordon R. Bernard, M.D., Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research:
gordon.bernard@vanderbilt.edu
Kenneth J. Holroyd, MD, MBA, Assistant Vice Chancellor for
Research: kenneth.holroyd@vanderbilt.edu
Dan Roden, MD, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Personalized
Medicine: dan.roden@Vanderbilt.Edu
Jeanne Wallace, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research:
jeanne.wallace@vanderbilt.edu
SOURCE: www.vanderbilt.edu/oor/about/contact.php
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