Design, development, and validation of artificial skin as a low-cost learning tool
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https://doi.org/10.59420/remus.12.2024.219Keywords:
Clinical simulation, Artificial skin, Low-cost model, Educational validationAbstract
Introduction: Simulation offers the practice of complex clinical scenarios in a safe environment, allowing for risk-free error-making. Physical skin models, made from non-living materials, mimic the properties and functions of real skin, making them useful in clinical simulation due to their stability, low cost, and easy storage.
Objective: To design, develop, and validate an effective and low-cost artificial skin model for clinical simulation.
Method: An artificial skin was created with glycerin and gelatin, with a realistic appearance, smooth texture, semi-flexibility, and 8 mm thickness. Validation was conducted using Likert-type surveys with 11 physicians and 52 students, assessing learning, morphology, and functionality for surgical techniques and peripheral venous access practices.
Results: 90% of the evaluation group showed a favorable attitude toward the model as a learning tool, 90.5% in morphology-functionality for surgical techniques, and 85% for peripheral venous access.
Conclusions: A low-cost, reusable, reheatable, and reshaped skin simulator suitable for a variety of clinical scenarios was developed. Specialists and students responded favorably to the simulation, with a cost nearly 90% lower than existing models. Synthetic skin models are viable simulation tools and are well-regarded by experts.
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