Local Emergency Simulation Scenarios Can Save Lives
Get your creative juices flowing, and help the Tulsa Fire
Department come up with a name for its METIman Patient Simulator.
Deadline for the "Name that METIman Patient Simulator"
Contest is August 31, 2011.
Please submit your ideas for names via email.
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The Tulsa Fire Department now has high-tech human patient
simulators that can provide risk-free medical and emergency
response training and reduce potential for human error.
The new patient simulator at the Tulsa Fire Department's Fire
Training Academy is a mathematically engineered human model that
represents the future of healthcare training and patient
safety.
Far more advanced than the resuscitation mannequins on which
many learned CPR, the METIman patient simulator has reactive eyes,
audible breath and heart sounds, realistic skin and airways, and
internal robotics that respond to medications and treatments. In
other words, "he" can blink, bleed, cry, suffer a heart attack, or
show signs of a drug overdose or severe allergic reaction.
Even though METIman displays the physiological reactions of a
human patient, he's not human. The "patient" can produce responsive
vital sign readings, while an instructor can control its medical
variables and "speak" via a remote microphone.
Developed in the United States in the early '90s, METI patient
simulators meld pioneering, computer-engineered human physiological
modeling with hands-on, clinical training for physicians, nurses,
emergency responders, healthcare students and military medics.
Students can practice skills such as catheterization, intubation
and ventilation in addition to the non-technical skills such as
communication. Medical professionals can create emergency team
training scenarios where everything is real except the patient.
During our ongoing emergency medical training, "The METIman
patient simulator enables Tulsa Fire personnel to develop
knowledge, competency and critical thinking skills in a less
stressful setting," says Michael Baker, Director of EMS.
Simulation training is expanding worldwide as greater numbers of
students and clinicians practice treating acutely ill or severely
injured simulators without risk of harm to real patients. Studies
have found that simulation training accelerates earning, reduces
anxiety while building confidence in newly graduated nurses and
saves lives.
