Sterility of macerated fruits and aseptic cadaver for phantom operations

Abstract

When studying obstetrics, a good obstetric phantom is of no small importance as a teaching aid. Teaching operational obstetrics is unthinkable even without it, since one reading cannot be so imprinted in the minds of listeners as the direct application of one or another technique by themselves, and one has to reckon with a number of details, like at the bedside of a woman in labor. No matter how great the clinic is, a number of obstetric operations, due to the rarity of their use, remains unseen by the majority of those involved. I will point out, for example, the operation spondylotomia, evisceratio, decapitatio, the imposition of forceps on the head when presenting the face, etc. That is why the obstetric phantom is an inevitable companion of the study of obstetrics. Recently, a number of improvements have been proposed in this direction. So ex. Schwabe arranged a device with a variable pelvis, on which you can get a normal and narrow pelvis.