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US 5,104,328 AGranted
Anatomical model
OwnerKatherine L. Lounsburyinventor
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Abstract
Anatomical models which represent the female abdominal area and include components simulating the layers of tissue in the abdominal area, the female reproductive organs, and the bladder. A simulated baby, umbilical cord, and placenta are also preferably included; and the tissue layer-representing components are provided with closures so that the dissecting and subsequent repairs of the tissue layers in surgical procedures can be simulated. The models are used to train professionals involved in such surgical procedures as caesarean sections, tubal ligations, and oophorectomies (the excisional removal of ovaries) and to educate and inform persons, prospective parents, and others--both professionals and non-professionals--e.g., with respect to such procedures.
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An anatomical model which comprises:
- means representing female reproductive organs in the abdominal cavity;
- means representing those layers of abdominal tissue which overlie said reproductive organs, said tissue layer-simulating means being configured and related to simulate an abdominal cavity;
- means which:
- (a) allow one to part each of the tissue layer-representing means and thereby simulate the actual dissection of the simulated layer of tissue in a surgical procedure requiring access to the reproductive organs, and (b) allow the thereby generated simulated incision to thereafter be closed to simulate the subsequent repair of the simulated layer of tissue;
- means simulating a uterus and located in the simulated abdominal cavity;
- means which allows one to:
- (a) part the uterus-simulating means of the model and thereby simulate that dissecting of the uterus used in the delivery of a baby by caesarean section an in other surgical procedures requiring access to the uterine cavity, and (b) simulate the subsequent repair of the uterus;
- a simulated baby;
- a simulated placenta;
- and a simulated umbilical cord attached, at opposite ends, to the simulated baby and the simulated placenta, said simulated baby, placenta, and umbilical cord being locatable in the uterine cavity provided by the simulated uterus and removable therefrom;
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- the simulated umbilical cord having means representing the vein and arteries present in an actual umbilical cord.
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An anatomical model which comprises:
- means representing female reproductive organs in the abdominal cavity;
- means representing the epidural layer, the adipose tissue layer, the facia, the outer peritoneum, and the visceral peritoneum which overlie said reproductive organs, said tissue layer-simulating means being configured and related to simulate an abdominal cavity;
- means which:
- (a) allow one to part each of the tissue layer-representing means and thereby simulate the actual dissection of the simulated layer of tissue in a surgical procedure requiring access to the reproductive organs, and (b) allow the thereby generated simulated incision to thereafter be closed to simulate the subsequent repair of the simulated layer of tissue;
- means simulating a uterus and located in the simulated abdominal cavity;
- means which allows one to:
- (a) part the uterus-simulating means of the model and thereby simulate that dissecting of the uterus used in the delivery of a baby by caesarean section and in other surgical procedures requiring access to the uterine cavity, and (b) simulate the subsequent repair of the uterus;
- a simulated baby;
- a simulated placenta;
- and
- a simulated umbilical cord attached, at opposite ends, to the simulated baby and the simulated placenta;
- said simulated baby, placenta, and umbilical cord being locatable in the uterine cavity provided by the simulated uterus and removable therefrom.
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An anatomical model which comprises:
- means representing those female reproductive organs in the abdominal cavity;
- means representing the epidural layer, the adipose tissue layer, the fascia, the outer peritoneum, and the visceral peritoneum which overlie said reproductive organs;
- means which:
- (a) allow one to part each of the tissue layer-representing means and thereby simulate the actual dissection of the simulated layer of tissue in a surgical procedure requiring access to the reproductive organs, and (b) allow the thereby generated simulated incision to thereafter be closed to simulate the subsequent repair of the simulated layer of tissue;
- the means for simulating the dissection of the foregoing anatomical structures and the subsequent repair of those structures comprise a zipper in each of the aforesaid tissue layer-representing means;
- those zippers in the means simulating the epidural and adipose tissue layers, the fascia, and the visceral peritoneum generally overlying one another and being oriented along paths in which incisions are actually made int he course of a lower transverse incision;
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- the zipper in that means representing the visceral peritoneum being oriented at a right angle relative to the other zippers, whereby all of said zippers are oriented in the same manner and are in the same locations as the incisions simulated by opening the zippers.
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