cadaver

Medical schools revise curricula to adapt to changing world

washingtonpost.com - Health  Mon, 11/09/2009 - 19:30

When Aaron Laviana started medical school at Georgetown University in 2007, he dissected a cadaver in his first week, in anatomy class.

Today, classes such as "Physician-Patient Communication" and "Social and Cultural Issues in Health Care" come first.

Dissection doesn't begin until month four at...


 

Kidneys Perfused Before Graft Have Improved Short-Term Outcomes

MedPage Today Surgery  Fri, 01/02/2009 - 08:30

GRONINGEN, The Netherlands (MedPage Today) -- Conventional cold storage for cadaver kidneys does not appear to yield the best transplantation outcomes, an international randomized trial showed.