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Dr. Brisson demonstrated open thoracotomy techniques to students and briefed the students on the indications and purposes for an open thoracotomy. During this procedure, students were able to practice direct CPR on a recently extracted pig heart, needle decompression and interact with a step-by-step open thoracotomy procedure. Brock Howell, MD, an orthopedic surgeon from Montgomery, Alabama, demonstrated a total knee replacement on model bones. He brought his instrument representative along with the necessary equipment to do a total

Also, at the conference, Swaid N. Swaid, MD, demonstrated various neurosurgical procedures. Swaid is a neurosurgeon from Birmingham, Alabama who came to teach various techniques such as Burr-hole and bone flap techniques.

knee replacement on bone models. He educated the students on the procedure before guiding them through an interactive knee replacement on model bones.

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