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Students work in Dr. Christi Denton\u2019s acute care nurse practitioner class in the Metro Building. Photo by Angela Foster.<\/p><\/div>\n

A version of this story first appeared in the 2023 issue of On Call, a publication of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga School of Nursing.<\/em><\/p>\n

The guy standing next to Dr. Christi Denton at the counter gave her a look that was a bit shocked, a bit confused and maybe a bit frightened.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went to Main Street Meats, and I’m talking to the guy behind the counter,\u201d said Denton, assistant professor in the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga School of Nursing. \u201cHe said, \u2018Are you looking for beef or pork ribs?\u2019 and I said, \u2018I don’t know. I’m a vegetarian. What’s more like human?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

What the man standing next to her didn\u2019t know is that Denton, who\u2019s also coordinator of the adult gerontology acute care nurse practitioner program in the School of Nursing, needed pork ribs to teach students how to properly insert a tube between human ribs to drain fluid or air from the chest cavity. It\u2019s a precarious procedure done in emergency situations when a chest tube is the only thing standing between life and death.<\/p>\n

Denton is a critical care nurse who has worked night shifts for 17 years at Erlanger Hospital and an adult gerontology acute care nurse practitioner, herself. She has dealt with dozens of chest-tube emergencies. Pork ribs are the most similar to humans\u2019 when it comes to the \u201cfeel\u201d of inserting the tube, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s the most realistic one that I think can mimic humans. There are a lot of sensations that students won’t have until they do it,\u201d Denton said.<\/p>\n

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During a recent lab in the School of Nursing, students worked on slabs of ribs attached to an artificial human torso, learning the \u201cfeel\u201d of using a scalpel to cut through layers of skin, muscle and fat between ribs, then using their fingers to recognize that they\u2019ve reached the chest cavity and are ready to insert the tube.<\/p>\n

When the lesson began, the fake torso was inserted into a \u201cpatient\u201d with a \u201cmedical misadventure,\u201d Denton explained. After four students practiced their skills in different places on the ribs, the patient became a \u201cmultiple gunshot victim,\u201d she told the students.<\/p>\n

Artificial torsos with plastic skin and foam muscle cost several thousand dollars compared to about $2 to $4 per pound for a slab of pork spare ribs, Denton said. Artificial torsos aren\u2019t as effective as the ribs for teaching students, she added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they simulate this with plastic-synthetic you don’t get the same multilayer feel because on people you have a tough, membranous layer and you feel that \u2018pop!\u2019 to go through. Then you have to dissect out muscle,\u201d Denton said. \u201cAll of that has a very different feel that they just can’t replicate, but you certainly can on a piece of meat.\u201d<\/p>\n

A pig\u2019s trachea\u2014also available at meat stores\u2014can be used for teaching students how to access the airway when going through the ribs won\u2019t work. Intubation or using the trachea to open an airway to the lungs is required to keep a person breathing, Denton said.<\/p>\n

Using pork products not only teaches students how it feels to insert a tube between human ribs or into the trachea, but this method also can take away some of the fear when dealing with a real medical emergency.<\/p>\n

In these instances, Denton said, \u201cit\u2019s very nervewracking. Someone’s very sick in front of you and the person is dying until you get this done. Simulation, especially with chest tubes or what we do on the pig trachea, gives the student some \u201creal life\u201d experience in a safe space. When they experience this in the hospital, they will have the skills needed to successfully support the patient\u2019s most important function\u2014breathing.\u201d<\/p>\n

All thanks to pigs.<\/p>\n

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From On Call, a publication of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga School of Nursing: \u201cI went to Main Street Meats, and I’m talking to the guy behind the counter,\u201d said Dr. Christi Denton, assistant professor in the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga School of Nursing. \u201cHe said, \u2018Are you looking for beef or pork ribs?\u2019 and I said, \u2018I don’t know. I’m a vegetarian. What’s more like human?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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