The Basic Open Surgical Skills (BOSS) Starter Package is a flexible platform for developing basic to advanced surgical skills.
The platform combines task features to practice instrument handling, suturing, injection, and knot tying techniques.
Its easy-to-clean platform for synthetic or cadaveric task modules and ergonomic design make it an excellent skill-building tool.
The BOSS Starter Package includes a BOSS platform, the Student Tissue Pack, Suturing Instrument Kit, and a Guided Surgical Skills Training Video and Self-Assessment Metrics developed by the University of Washington.
Features:
- A durable multi-use platform that can be used with any combination of materials
- Ergonomic design ensures correct hand positioning
- Small, portable platform perfect for simulation lab or home use
- Provides a variety of tissue materials on which to practice basic surgical tasks
- Tubing for knot tying under tension
- Hook for knot tying
- Cylindrical cup for knot tying and suturing at depth
- Tissue tensioning device
- An open site with a flexible fixation system
Skills:
- Basic to advanced suturing
- Suturing on a skin surface
- Subcuticular suturing
- Knot tying under tension
- Knot tying at depth
- Administering injections
- Instrument handling
- Wound closure techniques
- Bowel anastomosis
What's Included:
- BOSS Suturing Trainer
- Student Tissue Pack includes Subcuticular Tissue Pad, Complex Tissue Pad, Injectable Tissue Pad, Suture Tissue Pad, Large Intestine
- Suturing Instrument Kit
- Video-Guided Surgical Skills Tutorial
- Self-Assessment Metrics
