Background

For training of anesthesiologists, intensive care physicians and nurses, canine and porcine models are being used to teach the skills of mechanical ventilation, hemodynamic management and the physiology of lung-heart-interaction since organ size and physiology of these species closely resembles those of humans.

As realistic as these models may be, animal-based training is fragile, poorly reproducible and requires the full attention of a dedicated veterinarian or intensive care specialist to keep the animal alive while the trainees perform their exercises. During the course of the training event, the animals usually get sicker as more and more repetitions of the exercise are carried out. Thus, such worsening conditions until the final sacrifice dictate both, the sequence and content of the training sessions.
TestChest eliminates these disadvantages.