Posted: 9/14/2009 1:49:59 PM EDT
He wasn't doing too good when I got there. I ended up having to cric him and when I auscultated for the ET tube placement, I could tell he had a tension pneumothorax. As I performed an almost-flawless needle decompression, he coded. No amount of CPR was bringing this guy back.  My $30,000, fully-interactive patient is now a paper weight.   |
Maybe he needs shock.
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Quoted: Nice piece of kit... It's unbelievable. An operator controls it from a laptop. In addition to being a full dummy for intubations, crics, and compressions, etc, the operator can make the chest rise and fall at an abnormal rate with specific lung sounds, give it a flail chest, make it spurt blood out of wounds, give it an abnormal, palpable pulse (which you can palpate anywhere a human has a pulse), needle decompressions, and chest tubes. It even has 'veins' you can use to start IVs with (to include seeing the flash) Not pictured are the two others: infant and child. Pretty cool lab. |
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I have no idea why I clicked on this.
I said to myself, the last thing I want to see is someone working a code, but, I got sucked in anyway. At least it is realistic. If you end up having to cric somebody and then do a needle decompression, them coding is probably on the agenda also. I have done both more than once, but never on the same patient. |
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Quoted: I ordered a 100k METI simulator a couple weeks ago, waiting for it to show up. This thing is amazing on what it can do.  The human patient simulator looks familiar: http://www.meti.com/products_ps_hps.htm I heard this one was 30k, but this lab also got them (there were two others: infant and child) for free... I'll get pics of the arthro-surg stations next time I'm there too. |
| We have many sim man type and this one is pretty cool. I find the "heads" we practice on are the best to learn intubation and these guys are the best for mega code. The nasal intubation is HARDER than on a real person. Just remember practicing on plastic is like shooting a 22 when your getting a 30-06 for christmas |
