Biomechanical analysis of the skin of dogs' corpses chemically prepared with ethylic alcohol and curing salt aiming veterinary surgical practice: acute effect of the preparation and students’ evaluation

• Grant number: 17/17883-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: December 01, 2017
• End date: November 30, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Veterinary Medicine - Animal Clinics and Surgery
• Principal Investigator: Fabrício Singaretti de Oliveira
• Grantee: Alisson Diego Senna Fechis
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias (FCAV). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Jaboticabal. Jaboticabal , SP, Brazil

Abstract

A new scenario has been created from the Arouca law in 2009 on as for animal utilization in teaching and research activities. Nowadays, Universities are searching for alternative methods to put togheter a quality teaching in veterinary medicine with a rational applyance of animals and their welfare demmanded by law. The objective of this study is to analyze, biomechanically, the skin of dogs´ corpses prepared with ethylic alcohol and curing salt, aiming the veterinary surgery practice and the veterinary medicine students' evaluation about the quality of dieresis and synthesis of the skin of cadavers, comparing them to fresh animals. Thus, we aim to consolidate the utilization of chemically prepared cadavers as na alternative method to veterinary surgery teaching, with no academic disadvantage. (AU)