About reconskills

Reconskills represents a group of surgeons and business professionals interested in addressing orthopedic-trauma training using cadaveric specimens that feature realistic injuries and also degenerative diseases. A technology for this format using fracture simulators and other sorts of technical applications (Ilustr. 2) was brought up beginning in 2010, with a scientific project initiated by the Dep. of Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery / University Clinic of Cologne in cooperation with the Institute of Biomechanics and Orthopedics of the Sports University of cologne simulating forearm dislocation injuries. In the last decade we generated more than n=1500 prefractured specimens of nearly all joints of the human body. But also injuries to long bones and skull- and midface for advanced surgical training courses were produced.

Besides specimen injuries, we are developing concepts simulating trauma-care situations including planning, approaches and stabilization methods for the specific fracture situation on the basis of imaging including CT and 3D Prints. Reduction and fixation techniques are trained using pre-fractured specimens, providing most realistic surgical experiences. Courses featuring fracture prostheses with the identical concept have also been conducted and produced excellent feedback.

We evaluated the above educational concept concerning the subjective learning effects for theoretical and practical aspects compared to different conventional course concepts. Within the corresponding study the profound learning experience in such realistic trauma models was confirmed (Wegmann, Müller et al 2019). Reconskills is able to produce multiple specific realistic injury patterns in cadaveric specimens, which can successfully be implemented in surgical courses. These specimens can facilitate surgical education by providing realistic surgical exposure and in-depth learning .