‘Not the basic ABC of how you control a blood vessel’: perceptions of UK Defence Medical Services personnel toward live tissue training for the surgical management of trauma
C S Swain, M G Harjani, G Helgesson, R F Rickard, K Karlgren · 2026
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C S Swain and colleagues explored a 2026 qualitative study on live tissue training for trauma surgery in United Kingdom Defence Medical Services. Live tissue training uses anesthetized animals as stand-ins for human patients to teach surgical trauma skills. What this method uniquely teaches, beyond other simulation, remains debated among educators and ethicists alike.
Five online focus groups held 20 regular and reservist staff from surgery, anesthesia, emergency, and primary care roles. Six themes emerged, covering who should train and when, team practice, hands-on skill, emotional learning, realism, and moral justification. Frontline staff saw the method as basic skills training for medics, while hospital staff saw a finishing school for rare, high-risk steps. Most viewed the training favorably overall.
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| CREATOR | C S Swain, M G Harjani, G Helgesson, R F Rickard, K Karlgren |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 57398 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |