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Education , USP Online Highlight At FMVZ, professor Julia Matera pioneered the use of substitutive techniques for teaching surgery, a project for which she was recently awarded. At FMVZ, professor Julia Matera was a pioneer in the use of substitutive techniques for teaching surgery, a project for which she was recently awarded Although years before he had already introduced new practices in teaching surgery to veterinary students, it was in the symbolic year that professor Julia Maria Matera gave her final word: “enough.” Since then, no live animals have been used in his classes – and shortly after, in no other classes at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science (FMVZ) at USP. Photo: Marcos Santos/USP Images Canine auscultation simulator | Photo: Marcos Santos/USP Imagens When he began his teaching career at the University and took on the subject of Surgical Technique, student training was carried out with animals collected by the city's Zoonosis Control Center and sent to the.
College. The dogs were sedated and, after the procedure, euthanized. “On average, animals were used per year, and this bothered me a lot”, recalls the teacher. In addition to causing the unnecessary sacrifice of healthy animals, the practice was not as efficient as desired, as not all students could practice the procedures studied – the classes were divided into groups and only one member of each group could ac Whatsapp Number List tually perform the procedure. practice. In the following weeks, on other topics, the other students took turns. Faced with this discomfort, which had accompanied her since her own training, Julia began visiting other universities with the idea of developing surgical techniques that did not require the use of live animals. In the United States and Europe, preserved cadavers were already used for training, but adaptations needed to be made to use the techniques in Brazil, due to the country's high temperatures. “I was always clear that to have good acceptance, it was necessary to have quality.
Material”, she says. Therefore, she sought out professor Antonio Augusto Coppi, a colleague in the department, to work on the project. Looking for the solution Photo: Marcos Santos/USP Images Canine Intubation Head | Photo: Marcos Santos/USP Images The use of preserved cadavers instead of live animals in the classroom presented some requirements: it had to maintain the texture of the skin, coloring and structures, that is, guarantee the similarity with the living model. “We researched alternatives and then found a technique that was used to embalm corpses in the th century in a hospital in France, Larssen's solution”, says Julia. Adapting the formula to reduce product costs without losing quality, the researchers arrived at the so-called modified Larssen solution. Injected into the animal, the liquid manages to preserve the tissues, preserving the characteristic color and flexibility. The details of the technique were reported in the dissertation by then master's student Rosane Maria Guimarães da Silva.
College. The dogs were sedated and, after the procedure, euthanized. “On average, animals were used per year, and this bothered me a lot”, recalls the teacher. In addition to causing the unnecessary sacrifice of healthy animals, the practice was not as efficient as desired, as not all students could practice the procedures studied – the classes were divided into groups and only one member of each group could ac Whatsapp Number List tually perform the procedure. practice. In the following weeks, on other topics, the other students took turns. Faced with this discomfort, which had accompanied her since her own training, Julia began visiting other universities with the idea of developing surgical techniques that did not require the use of live animals. In the United States and Europe, preserved cadavers were already used for training, but adaptations needed to be made to use the techniques in Brazil, due to the country's high temperatures. “I was always clear that to have good acceptance, it was necessary to have quality.
Material”, she says. Therefore, she sought out professor Antonio Augusto Coppi, a colleague in the department, to work on the project. Looking for the solution Photo: Marcos Santos/USP Images Canine Intubation Head | Photo: Marcos Santos/USP Images The use of preserved cadavers instead of live animals in the classroom presented some requirements: it had to maintain the texture of the skin, coloring and structures, that is, guarantee the similarity with the living model. “We researched alternatives and then found a technique that was used to embalm corpses in the th century in a hospital in France, Larssen's solution”, says Julia. Adapting the formula to reduce product costs without losing quality, the researchers arrived at the so-called modified Larssen solution. Injected into the animal, the liquid manages to preserve the tissues, preserving the characteristic color and flexibility. The details of the technique were reported in the dissertation by then master's student Rosane Maria Guimarães da Silva.