NEW MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE US. Bleeding, Seizing, Birthing Robots..Info straight from the source

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Only an FYI. I received this from the CEO of the healthcare organization I work for. I removed things for confidentiality, but you will get the idea. Thought I would share...Here is it -

Office-of-the-CEO

Subject Celebrating Patient Simulator Training

Dear colleagues,

Five to ten years from now, health care workers all across the planet will do a significant part of their training using robots as practice patients rather than people.

Five years ago, that concept was completely unheard of.

Robots are a perfect training approach and tool. A life size doll-like piece of machinery can bleed, have seizures, and give birth –- allowing experienced caregivers a chance to practice special skills and giving inexperienced trainees a chance to learn brand new skills and new techniques.

Right now, only a very few care sites are using human-like mechanical mannequins for training purposes. ****** is a leader in that field.

My letter this week celebrates our pioneering efforts in using mechanical patients to train and upgrade the skill levels of ****** caregivers.

We now have the life-sized computerized mannequins in over thirty sites –- realistically simulating medical emergencies and medical needs for our health care teams.

One official goal of the program is to use the simulated patients to “help a team of experts become an expert team.�?.As one practitioner said to me, “No one would ever have a pilot learn to fly an airplane with a plane full of passengers.�? Most pilots learn today using simulators that fully recreate the experience and issues of actually flying their planes.

Using robot patients for training is a very similar experience. It is an approach that allows the caregivers to experience some highly-challenging and relatively rare patient problems without having a real patient at risk. Pilots in training have those same chances to respond to problematic flight situations on their simulators.

The training programs and computerized robot patients have been used at ***** in labor and delivery, anesthesia, operating rooms, emergency departments, neonatal/pediatrics, intensive care units, med/surg units (for special “Rapid Response Teams�?), general and interventional radiology, adult and pediatric procedural sedation, and ambulatory surgery and procedural centers.

In a few years, the rest of health care will be catching up with our work in this area. Times change. Approaches change. We are –- in some key areas –- leading change.

So that’s my celebration for this week –- Be well.

George

By CatGirl on Mar 8, 2008, 11:26 in Off Topic.

CatGirl says on Mar 8, 2008, 11:31:

In the healthcare world...this is a big deal. It is very different being present and assisting during an emergency situation vs. alone. I remember the first time I was alone with a patient. Talking one minute, trying to admit her, next minute no response, flatline and.....it is something I think every healthcare provider remembers. Especially the first time they save a life...you always remember that ;)
So this project is for patient safety and better quality care!

Love and Time: the only two things that cannot be bought, but only spent

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miamimike says on Mar 8, 2008, 21:20:

CG--I've encountered a goodly number of Patients across the years with some pretty foul personalities, not to mention their Foul Body Odor ! I would welcome a few Robots with pleasant demeanors(with no BO) compared to some of the Humanoids I deal with! LOL

"Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? That's interesting. I hadn't heard that." -- Feb. 28, 2008 --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C.

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CatGirl says on Mar 8, 2008, 22:57:

MM; Jajaja - sooo true!
Don't forget those body fluids either Ha!

Love and Time: the only two things that cannot be bought, but only spent

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miamimike says on Mar 9, 2008, 23:44:

Don't forget those body fluids either Ha!
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CG--Hard to forget those body fluids even if I wanted to! I contracted a superbug of sorts in my last Hospital Job at the VA here in Miami. It settled in my Ear and it took two regimens of Antibiotics to finally put it down. Finally, the Antibiotic Ciprofloxacin, or Cipro finally did the job.Cipro is the drug of choice for Anthrax btw, a very potent AB. I beleive I received it from a Terminal Trach patient I cared for who put out copious amounts of the foulest looking and smelling Sputum I have seen in my time in the Medical field. That included over 15 years working with many Ventilator Dependent patients(a sub speciality for me), all who produced varying degrees of Foul looking&smelling Sputum. I was under for a Year with that Bug,,,and the other "Fluids" for which need no reminder of smell wise.

"Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? That's interesting. I hadn't heard that." -- Feb. 28, 2008 --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C.

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CatGirl says on Mar 10, 2008, 02:09:

MM - hope you wore a face sheild...LOL
In your ear? Now that is a new one for me, a bit uncommon for such an infection. Was that why it was so hard to pin point?

Love and Time: the only two things that cannot be bought, but only spent

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