A medical team is trying to intervene to stop stabbings, rather than waiting to treat them when they happen.
Stuffing your hand into the fleshy slime of someone's stomach on an operating table is going to grab anyone's attention.
And they want health services not only to treat victims but to intervene to make stabbings less likely in the first place.So, they've created an immersive role play for teenagers, getting them to stuff swabs around the organs and look for injuries below the peeled-back skin of this anatomical model.The simulation uses professional anatomical models to show the damage caused by stabbings
"It's absolutely about public health," says Prof Kneebone, and his team is taking this simulation into schools and places where teenagers are likely to gather.Surgeons want to join up responses to knife crime from health services, the police and councils
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