BackgroundSurgical simulation-based training (SBT) can increase resident confidence and improve performance. SBT in pediatric surgery is its infancy often geared toward fellows. Since case volume for various surgery–specific procedures be low based on the rarity of pathology involved level care provided by institution, our aim was to create a curriculum general residents address this need.Mater...

Eighteen patients with marginal depressed or comminuted fractures of the head of the radius, nine of whom had an associated posterior dislocation of the elbow, had a Silastic replacement carried out shortly after injury. After an average follow-up of twenty-six months satisfactory clinical results were observed in seventeen cases; three prostheses broke. The prosthesis has been particularly eff...

A Silastic cuff containing either colchicine (1% w/v) or no colchicine was placed around the lingual disorder tympani nerve of the Mongolian gerbil. After 3 days of exposure to colchicine, the mean period of the myelin sheaths was 23% less than the period observed in nerves treated with cuffs lacking colchicine, while the average number of lamellae was unaltered. At the same time colchicine red...

Left ventricular (LV) pressure and myocardial segment length, determined by an epicardial mercury-in-silastic length gauge, were plotted simultaneously to obtain a pressure-length loop before and after left anterior descending artery (LAD) occlusion in 11 dogs. Previous studies have indicated that the area within this loop is a sensitive and reproducible means of quantitating regional myocardia...

A 24 mm COMS-like eye plaque was developed to meet the treatment needs of our eye plaque brachytherapy practice. As part of commissioning, it was necessary to determine the new plaque's seed coordinates. The FARO Edge, a commercially available measurement arm, was chosen for this purpose. In order to validate the FARO Edge method, it was first used to measure the seed marker coordinates in the ...

The problem of predicting the rate of percutaneous absorption of a drug is an important issue, particular with the increasing use of the skin as a means of moderating and controlling drug delivery. One key feature of this problem domain is that human skin permeability to penetrants (often characterised by Kp, the permeability coefficient) has been shown to be inherently non-linear when mathemat...

The basic component of Silastic® glue (Dow Corning) used to prepare Silastic® pellets is polydimethylsiloxane. This compound is also present in other commercial adhesives such as FASTIX® (Akapol SA) that are available in any store for that category. In the present study we developed low cost, easy to prepare handmade steroid pellets (HMSP) by mixing 17β-estradiol, progesterone or other syntheti...

Quantification of shape fidelity of complex geometries for tissue-engineered constructs has not been thoroughly investigated. The objective of this study was to quantitatively describe geometric fidelities of various approaches to the fabrication of anatomically shaped meniscal constructs. Ovine menisci (n = 4) were imaged using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and microcomputed tomography (mic...