medical simulation /medhealthsci/taxonomy/term/5778/all en Researchers identify improved avenues to train plastic surgeons in microsurgery /medhealthsci/channels/news/researchers-identify-improved-avenues-train-plastic-surgeons-microsurgery-302015 <p style="text-align:center"><strong>Adoption of methods that could reduce costs and spare animal models</strong></p> <p>Microsurgery is an intricate and challenging surgical technique that involves using miniature instruments and sutures as fine as a hair strand aided by sophisticated microscopes. In plastic surgery, microsurgery is used to repair small damaged vessels and nerves following trauma, or in reconstructive procedures by moving a component of living tissue from one place of the body to another and reconnecting its vascular supply to this new region to keep its blood supply.</p> Tue, 08 Jun 2021 15:56:21 +0000 admin 322793 at /medhealthsci