PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Kerber, C W
AU  - Flaherty, L W
TI  - A teaching and research simulator for therapeutic embolization.
DP  - 1980 Mar 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - 167--169
VI  - 1
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/1/2/167.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/1/2/167.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.1980 Mar 01; 1
AB  - A teaching machine that simulates intravascular conditions found during a human therapeutic embolization has been constructed. A submersible pump drives fluid through a circuit of tubing. One limb of a Y (a vascular bifurcation) located in this circuit leads to a model arteriovenous malformation. Catheters placed in this limb may introduce embolic materials by various techniques, and those techniques may be learned and practiced under safe and stress-free conditions. Loss of an embolus into the other limb which supposedly leads to normal tissues is caught and displayed by a sieve, providing immediate feedback that a technique error has occurred.