Florence, 22 September 2021 – For the first time, the exercises on corpses will happen within a public hospital. Medical exercises on lifeless bodies are certainly not new. But in Italy the so-called «Cadaver Lab» it did not happen in the public. From tomorrow we change. The Florentine hospital St. John of God will experience it, the first public structure in Italy, tomorrow, Thursday 23, for the first time. This was announced by the Asl Tuscany center.
In the room where the autopsy, Twenty people including learners and instructors trained and experienced in the field of emergency medicine will begin tomorrow morning the first training day with practical exercises on two cadavers. “Three more training days are planned, but tomorrow’s will be the first in which learners, doctors specializing in emergency medicine working at Goddess of the Ausl Tuscany center, will have the opportunity to combine the theoretical part with the technical-practical part. They will experience invasive emergency maneuvers “such as theintubation, “Without the pressure of emergency urgency, not on a mannequin but on a human body donated to science and training and under the guidance of trained professionals who in recent months, to create the teaching team, have participated in them time, and only them, to two simulations on a corpse ».
«The simulation is the practice that often results unreal on mannequins – he underlines Gianfranco Giannasi, director of the Emergency Department of San Giovanni di Dio and of the Emergency Emergency Area of the Central Tuscany Local Health Authority -; on cadaver is clearly the best and closest to reality way to prepare learners with various levels of clinical experience for the application of invasive maneuvers ».