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May. 1st, 2007
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May. 1st, 2007 07:56 amYesterday I drove to a small town to view a Human Patient Simulator, which is seriously one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time.
STARS, which is an air ambulance team here, has a training vehicle that they use to train doctors, paramedics and nurses in the area. STARS is used when accidents happen in remote areas. The human patient simulator is a mannequin which breathes, has eyes that move with pupils that dilate, a heart beat, and a pulse. He can also talk. To be honest, the whole thing was sort of creepy. The kids learned how to put a ventalin mask on the mannequin, helped him breathe through an ambubag, and used a defibrillator on him.
The whole thing is hooked up to a computer, which is in another room. A person sits at the controls and can see everyone with the mannequin by three cameras. There are also speakers inside so the person in the control room can hear the people working on the mannequin and can speak for the mannequin.
In a more advanced training situation, the person in the control room can create all kinds of symptoms for the mannequin so the doctors/paramedics have to learn how to treat the illness. It was both creepy and fascinating at the same time.
I asked the controller to make the mannequin call for Dr. McDreamy, which she did.
STARS, which is an air ambulance team here, has a training vehicle that they use to train doctors, paramedics and nurses in the area. STARS is used when accidents happen in remote areas. The human patient simulator is a mannequin which breathes, has eyes that move with pupils that dilate, a heart beat, and a pulse. He can also talk. To be honest, the whole thing was sort of creepy. The kids learned how to put a ventalin mask on the mannequin, helped him breathe through an ambubag, and used a defibrillator on him.
The whole thing is hooked up to a computer, which is in another room. A person sits at the controls and can see everyone with the mannequin by three cameras. There are also speakers inside so the person in the control room can hear the people working on the mannequin and can speak for the mannequin.
In a more advanced training situation, the person in the control room can create all kinds of symptoms for the mannequin so the doctors/paramedics have to learn how to treat the illness. It was both creepy and fascinating at the same time.
I asked the controller to make the mannequin call for Dr. McDreamy, which she did.
Reviewed in Calgary Herald...
May. 1st, 2007 08:18 amFrom a review in the Calgary Herald-
She Dreams in Red by Alexis Kienlen (Frontenac House, 88 pages, $15.95)
An enticing title for this collection of poetry will lead readers to peer through the eyes of Alexis Kienlen as she travels the world. Red, a complicated colour, is a telling leitmotif as she delves into love and loss, between her world and those of a lover, another culture, another generation.
She Dreams in Red by Alexis Kienlen (Frontenac House, 88 pages, $15.95)
An enticing title for this collection of poetry will lead readers to peer through the eyes of Alexis Kienlen as she travels the world. Red, a complicated colour, is a telling leitmotif as she delves into love and loss, between her world and those of a lover, another culture, another generation.
