Soft Embalmed Tissue for Life-Like Anatomical Visualization and Skills Training.
Upgrade your skills and understanding with Soft-Prep Tissue.
Embalmed Tissue That Preserves Life-Like Texture, True Tissue Planes, and Procedural Realism
Helping you experience anatomy better.
Through tissue that performs realistically under the hands of both the learner and the surgeon, preserving the texture, mobility, and structural integrity essential for meaningful anatomical and procedural training.
Transforming Anatomical Education and Surgical Skills Training
Soft-Prep™ is an advanced soft-embalming technique designed to optimize human tissue for procedural skills training and anatomical education.
Soft-Prep™ tissue supports a wide range of advanced procedural training, including airway management and endotracheal intubation, abdominal trocar placement and insufflation, flexible and rigid endoscopy, orthopedic joint exposure and repair, and delicate hand and tendon surgery. Preserved tissue compliance, maintained fascial planes, and realistic joint mobility allow learners to experience authentic resistance, tissue handling, and spatial relationships comparable to living anatomy. This level of biomechanical fidelity enables meaningful repetition of procedural steps in a controlled educational environment.
Life-Like
Unlike traditional preservation methods that produce rigid, desiccated tissue, Soft-Prep™ maintains life-like tissue mobility, realistic texture, and preserved fascial planes — allowing for authentic dissection and procedural simulation.
Preservation Method
The Soft-Prep™ Program is a comprehensive whole-body preservation system. Specimens are maintained at room temperature, eliminating the need for downdraft tables and refrigeration units while still delivering realistic biomechanical performance.
Reduced exposure to Formaldehyde
The Soft-Prep™ method utilizes less than 1% formaldehyde, significantly reducing chemical exposure for embalmers, laboratory staff, and trainees while preserving tissue integrity and handling characteristics.
Benefits
Fresh Tissue vs Soft-Prep
Unlike fresh (unembalmed) tissue, Soft-Prep™ (embalmed) specimens are maintained at room temperature without the need for refrigeration, while preserving life-like tissue mobility, native compliance, and realistic handling characteristics.
Room-Temperature Stability
Fresh tissue programs often require repeated freeze–thaw cycles for multi-day use, which can compromise tissue integrity, alter texture, and disrupt natural dissection planes. In contrast, Soft-Prep™ tissue remains stable throughout the day of use at room temperature, without progressive deterioration, excessive tissue breakdown, or the pronounced odor associated with early decomposition.
Operational Efficiency
By inhibiting autolysis and reducing microbial activity, Soft-Prep™ slows postmortem degradation while preserving biomechanical performance. This stability streamlines laboratory workflow, reduces infrastructure demands such as refrigeration and downdraft systems, and allows greater scheduling flexibility without sacrificing procedural realism.
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Natural Color Retention
Soft-Prep™ preservation maintains more natural tissue coloration and contrast between anatomical structures compared to traditional formalin fixation. Preserved visual differentiation of muscle, fascia, vascular structures, and organs enhances anatomical orientation and improves the educational experience during dissection and procedural training.
Preserved Flexibility
Soft-Prep™ tissue retains native joint mobility, soft-tissue compliance, and realistic fascial glide. This allows for authentic separation of connective tissue planes, accurate simulation of surgical exposure, and meaningful repetition of both open and minimally invasive procedures.
Whole-Body Integrity
The Soft-Prep™ program utilizes comprehensive whole-body embalming, allowing the entire donor to be used while maintaining anatomical continuity. This approach supports respectful donor stewardship, improved specimen tracking, and a controlled, dignified disposition process.
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Soft-Prep™ Preservation
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Hybrid Preservation Model
For gross anatomy programs seeking a balance between traditional presentation and functional mobility, we offer a Hybrid Preservation Model.
In this approach, the thoracic, abdominal, and pelvic cavities are preserved using a modified traditional embalming protocol to maintain the visual characteristics familiar to gross anatomy curricula, while the extremities are prepared using our Soft-Prep™ technique to preserve joint mobility, soft-tissue compliance, and realistic fascial plane separation.
To reduce formaldehyde exposure where possible, the modified cavity preservation incorporates a glutaraldehyde-based component within the overall formulation strategy. The result is a practical balance that supports both structured cavity dissection and enhanced musculoskeletal instruction.
Because each donor’s vascular anatomy, tissue composition, and physiologic condition are unique, preservation characteristics may vary slightly between specimens. Additionally, minimal transitional overlap between preservation regions can occur during preparation, reflecting natural perfusion pathways; however, overall structural integrity and educational function are maintained.
Preservation Variability Statement
Human anatomical preservation is influenced by natural biologic variation. Donor vascular distribution, tissue composition, underlying pathology, and adipose content can affect perfusion patterns and overall preservation characteristics.
Fluid distribution may overlap at regional boundaries during preparation, and subtle preservation gradients can occur where vascular perfusion territories meet. These variations reflect normal anatomic and physiologic differences rather than inconsistency in technique.
Donor body composition also plays a role in tissue performance. Specimens with lower adipose content may be particularly well suited for short-term intensive procedural use, while donors with average body mass index (BMI) may demonstrate more balanced preservation characteristics for mid- to longer-term educational use.
As with all preserved human tissue programs, routine maintenance protocols are required to support tissue hydration, reduce microbial growth, and minimize desiccation over time. When properly maintained, Soft-Prep™ specimens provide consistent, high-quality educational performance.
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Soft-Prep™ — A New Way to Experience the Human Body
Through thoughtful preservation and anatomical fidelity, we strive to elevate medical education and advance the skills that improve lives.