<p>This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p> <p>The basic training in liver surgery on isolated perfused livers used at the workshop in the First
Surgical Course of the Alps—Adriatic Hepatobiliary School is presented. The methods for the
excision, preservation, perfusion and preparation of the liver are described, as is the manner of
manufacturing the upper abdomen moulded casts, into which an isolated perfused liver is
placed for training. The methods proved to be sufficiently successful, enabling participants to
perform basic liver surgery like an intraoperative ultrasound investigation, as well as liver
dissection techniques, liver suturing, segmental resection and even hepatectomy. Some
technical improvements are proposed for future surgical workshops, such as washing out the
blood from the liver, and a triple perfusion.</p>
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HPB Surg. 1995; 9(1):19-24