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TraumaMan should be called TorsoMan. He's a headless, legless, armless torso with nipples and a belly button. His ribs bulge beneath pink, rubbery skin. The chest rises and falls with


each mechanical breath. But cut TraumaMan, and does he not bleed? Well, yes -- or at least, he delivers a "blood flow response" when cut by a scalpel. A synthetic device


manufactured by the Seattle-based Simulab, TraumaMan is being used to help surgeons-in-training master emergency skills. The realism of sophisticated simulators doesn't come cheap: The


best go for hundreds of thousands of dollars. TraumaMan runs just a few thousand -- but replacement parts cost extra. Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


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