It is hard to imagine teaching basic clinical skills without using simulators today. The technology has revolutionized our approach to healthcare and has significantly improved the quality of healthcare available. If you are someone who trains aspiring learners in the medical/nursing fields, you can’t go ahead without thinking about medical manikins and simulators.
When deciding which manikins to purchase, there are many factors you need to consider, like functionality, fidelity, and cost, among others. At SEM Trainers, we bring you the biggest variety of simulators and manikins, all of which are ISO 9001-Certified and acquired from 3B Scientific, meeting the highest quality standards. We provide everything from low-fidelity to high-fidelity trainers, for all your needs.
Here are some of SEM Trainers’ leading medical simulators:
This airway management trainer torso has realistic anatomy and landmarks, and is perfect for practicing intubation, ventilation, suction, and CPR techniques for both freshers and advanced students.
ADAM is the most realistic, high-fidelity adult male human patient simulator. He’s good for everything from patient care and emergency medical intervention to resuscitation training for dynamic team training. If you’re looking for an Advanced Trauma Life Support trainer, you can’t miss this one.
With tongue swelling and laryngospasm, this 5-year old child trainer is perfect for practicing intubation, ventilation, suction, and jaw thrust skills on pediatric patients- for both introductory and advanced training.
A complete patient care and advanced nursing skills solution. This adult, life-size patient manikin has interchangeable genitals and natural movement of the arms, legs, and joints. It’s great for teaching everything from transfer skills and bed care to bathing and bandaging a patient- and everything in between.
This is an emergency simulation kit with complex wounds testing higher levels of skill in bandaging and patient care while keeping initial expenditures low. It includes a gunshot wound of the palm, a sucking wound of the chest, compound fractures of the humerus and the tibia, and an open amputation in addition to 24 stick-on lacerations and open fracture wounds.
Bringing a human into this world is powerful, so here’s an emotionally engaging birthing simulator, Advanced Lucy, to bring a new level of realism to prenatal to postnatal delivery scenarios. Lucy is anatomically accurate and helps students experience normal and abnormal deliveries, preparing them for the real ones.
KERi doesn’t seem to have a specific age, but is capable of a lifelike range of motion, realistic patient positioning, and non-pinching joints so it even moves like a real person. And it can convert to male. KERi is great for everything from bandaging and bed baths to catheterization and pap smears.
A realistic, 42cm fetus with articulating head, neck, shoulders, elbows, hips, and knees for more realistic practice of difficult delivery exercises such as Leopold’s or Ritgen’s maneuvers.
Randy is a rugged, hyper-realistic manikin designed for enhanced realistic training on procedures that treat the 3 most preventable causes of death (massive bleeding, tension pneumothorax, and airway obstruction). It is compliant with TCCC/TECC scenarios.
This kit has the entire 3B Scientific suite of intramuscular injection simulators and helps practice IM injections anywhere on the body. It also helps locate the correct site for injection using realistic and anatomically accurate upper arm, buttock, and upper leg simulators, and helps feel the correct needle depth too.
This was just a sneak peek into the long list of leading manikins and simulators from SEM Trainers. Visit www.semtrainers.com to see over 1200 products listed on our site and take your pick.
After all, these simulators will end up being used for years, training hundreds, even thousands of students before they’ll need to be replaced. With manikins and simulators, you deserve nothing but the best.
Patient simulators are life-size manikins with lifelike features and responsive physiology like respiration, heart beat, and pulse. In simpler terms, these are mechanical and computer-controlled simulators that look realistic and respond realistically, showing symptoms and disease processes as would be in real life. This kind of high-fidelity realism provides a hands-on learning experience in a controlled environment, and is great for building clinical skills, communication skills, and critical thinking in learners.
One thing to consider when buying a simulator or manikin is their high acquisition and maintenance costs. With that in mind, before making a purchase, it’s important to ask the right questions.
Question: What skills do we need to teach with this patient simulator?
Patient simulators come in a variety of models, from surgical simulators and military simulators to birthing simulators, preterm infant simulators, and geriatric simulators. Some manikins come with severed limbs or burn injuries. These can be great for teaching learners how to deal with military, trauma, or emergency cases while also training on triage for such cases. With multiple manikins, you can also create mass casualty simulations. If your purpose is to train for birthing related skills, you can go for various manikins to simulate labor, delivery, newborn emergencies, and postpartum critical events. These can teach skills like delivering a baby head down, caring for preterm babies, caring for sick babies, caring for the mother with postpartum complications. Whatever skills you need to teach, look for simulators related to that.
Question: How realistic should the patient simulator be?
Patient simulators can be low-,mid-, or high-fidelity manikins. The higher the fidelity, the more realistic and lifelike the simulator and its replication of the human body’s various functions. Let’s ask the first question again- what skills need to be taught with the simulator? If you need it for repetitive task training like starting IVs or inserting urinary catheters, a simple low-fidelity manikin will do. If you need individuals to learn how to change dressing or practice suturing, simple silicon wound models will be enough. If you want to teach something like performing CPR, you’ll need basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation manikins. For assessing vital signs or training on nursing skills, you might be better off with mid-fidelity manikins. This can help them figure out whether it’s safe to give a medicine depending on the current vital signs. Most high-fidelity manikins will mimic complex body systems (for ex- the chest may rise and fall, there may be chest and bowel sounds, and you may be able to feel a pulse) and help train on complex clinical skills and trauma or emergency cases. Some high-fidelity manikins may also be able to speak or cry. Basically, to understand what kind of fidelity you want, you’ll need to think about the complexity of the task you need to train on.
Question: What is your budget?
Another important question is to ask what your budget is for the patient simulator. For this, you need to consider what functionalities you will need in the simulator. Will you need a very high-fidelity manikin or will a mid- or low-fidelity one be enough? High-fidelity manikins tend to be costlier than mid- and low-fidelity ones. Sometimes, people end up buying the high-fidelity ones and then many of those functions go unused either because they are not required for the scope of the learning or because people aren’t even aware of those functions. Other times, people buy low- or mid-fidelity manikins, but then have to buy better ones eventually. You may also need to ask yourself- “Do I need to buy a high-fidelity manikin for this or distribute the budget elsewhere in the lab too?” To be honest, neither fidelity is superior to the other, they both have their pros and cons. While high-fidelity manikins are more realistic, low-fidelity ones allow students to learn at their pace. The decision may come to what skills need to be taught.
Ultimately, you need to make a decision based on what functions you need and what skills you need to teach while making a trade-off between cost and fidelity (but accommodating the fidelity needs of the skills to be taught).
Simulation is the only way to provide learners the opportunity to deal with rare and life-threatening situations without causing any risk to real patients. And even then, when they make mistakes, they get to see the implications of the errors and are allowed the chance to rectify their mistakes. Over the last few years, this technology has revolutionized how we approach healthcare and the quality of patient care, and it’s exciting to think about what the future holds for it.
The responsibility of saving lives that befalls our hospitals and the Indian healthcare system as a whole is thwarted by the several challenges it faces on all fronts. Together, these can affect not only the quality of care delivered but whether people seek that care at all.
Lack of Awareness
The first challenge to delivering effective healthcare is a lack of awareness in the public. From ignoring their symptoms and believing they don’t need treatment to more concrete barriers like affordability and a lack of resources, a lot of things get in the way of saving lives. This may be attributed to factors like poor education, poor functional literacy, and a low priority for health.
Lack of Access
Even those who are aware may not have access to quality healthcare owing to financial, organizational, social, and cultural barriers, even in places where they are available. This brings us to physical accessibility. Living further away from town increases the odds of disease, malnourishment, weakness, and premature death.
Shortage of Healthcare Workers
Not only do hospitals need to have an adequate number of working personnel, they need people who are appropriately trained and employable. By introducing simulation-led training in our medical and nursing curricula, we can create more prepared and capable healthcare workers in the future.
A 2019 study discovered that we only have one doctor for every 1457 people and 1.7 nurses for every 1000 people. And the manpower we do have is distributed unevenly as most prefer to work in more developed areas where their own quality of life and that of their children will be superior. The public healthcare system is also not allocated enough funds. This difference in quality of care drives people to prefer private healthcare, which is often not affordable for most. People in rural areas are discouraged and less likely to seek treatment when they travel far to government-run healthcare facilities and find a lack of qualified professionals and inadequate infrastructure.
Additionally, we only have one bed for every 2,239 people. These shortages in personnel, PPE kits, oxygen cylinders, and ambulances posed great challenges in saving lives during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Cost of Healthcare
The inconsistent costs and lack of cost regulation in the private sector often ends up as huge medical bills, specially in emergency cases. For example, because many families aren’t able to shoulder the increasingly high costs of infant care and pre-natal surgical procedures, the infant mortality rate in India is one of the highest in the world. In contrast, public healthcare facilities are cheap or free, but unreliable.
Poor Soft Skills
The ability to effectively communicate with the patients and their frustrated family members, and within the team itself is crucial to the success of a case more than you’d think. Theory alone will not prepare individuals for dealing with patients, so a good way to build communication skills and other soft skills is to incorporate simulation-led training.
Lack of Openness to Digitalization
Another challenge faced is the lack of openness to digitalization among the hospital staff. For several reasons, as the world becomes increasingly digitalized, hospitals need to catch up too. But not everyone may be comfortable with incorporating it to refine existing procedures. Doctors may also be set in their ways and show no interest in learning the new tools.
Less Emphasis on Preventive Care
Preventive care can usually solve a lot of problems in terms of misery and financial losses, and avoid worse problems along the road. But most people either don’t know or don’t care about general preventive care. This not only saves money for the patient, but also reduces the burden on the limited healthcare infrastructure.
As we advance technologically, with more facilities, there will always be newer challenges to address. What’s important is to keep going forward and create a reliable healthcare system for everyone.
Whether it’s the massive population that stands second in the world or the large pool of well-trained medical professionals in the country, the healthcare industry in India is one that is quickly making its way to the top. And with the opportunity, comes responsibility.
Simulation is widely credited as not just a powerful education tool, but also an instrument for quality improvement. By creating a safe, interactive learning environment and effecting various technical and soft skills, it creates the perfect opportunity for improving healthcare outcomes in patients.
Simulation creates an interactive learning experience
By creating guided simulated experiences with a hint of substantial aspects of the real world, simulation is able to provide an interactive learning experience and platform. This builds skills and fundamentals in learners, effectively improving patient outcomes.
Simulation provides real-time feedback to learners
When students get immediate feedback through task trainers and systems, two things happen. If they are performing the skill correctly, it helps them proceed with the task more confidently. And if they are doing something wrong, they are corrected at the spot so they can correct their course of action instead of getting negative feedback at the end and feeling disparaged because of it.
Simulation offers an unmatched opportunity to analyze the students’ performance
By creating structured scenarios with events and details that replicate features of real-world clinical situations, simulation is able to provide access to events that cannot otherwise be directly observed. This results in an extraordinary learning experience, and ultimately, into better patient and healthcare outcomes.
Simulation provides a safe, controlled environment for learning
Through simulation-led medical training, students are not only given the freedom to make mistakes, but they are given the unique opportunity to learn from their mistakes. Interestingly, being free to make mistakes also means that they feel free to play around with the functions and explore them. And this makes for healthcare professionals who are not left clueless at an unexpected clinical situation, who are able to deal with any situation that presents itself. This fundamentally results in better healthcare outcomes.
Simulation makes repeated, hands-on practice possible
Without simulation, it would be difficult to provide students with the exposure needed to build certain technical skills that can only be perfected with practice; clearly, theory alone isn’t enough. While the greatest benefit of simulation may be that it allows hands-on practice, much of the skill comes from repeated practice. By creating capable healthcare professionals, the number of errors are highly reduced, and the quality of patient care, immensely improved.
Simulation avoids inconvenience to real patients
It is obvious that when simulation eliminates the need to have freshers practice on real patients, removing that risk, inconvenience, and breach of privacy for the patients means the quality of patient care and healthcare outcomes are greatly improved.
Simulation can highlight communication issues
Many medical errors and patient harm instances can be traced back to failings in communicating effectively. Simulation can shine a light on these and, in turn, help improve the systems and processes by improving team and communication skills.
Simulation can help improve outcomes for life-threatening conditions
Because simulation is able to replicate real-life situations in a safe way, we can simulate life-threatening situations just as easily as everyday situations in the real clinical setting. With simulation, researchers don’t have to wait for rare events to happen to be able to observe them. And by reproducing life-threatening and catastrophic conditions as often as we want, it can be helpful in improving our approach to such situations.
Simulation makes better research possible
The benefits of simulation are not just received through education; it also makes better research possible. For example, simulation can be used to study the impact of noise on anesthetists’ stress level in operation theaters. It can give insight into things in a way that nothing else can. And better research automatically improves the quality of healthcare outcomes globally. Simulation-based research may be the biggest way in which simulation is helping improve healthcare outcomes and the quality of patient care.
The effort to improve healthcare outcomes with simulation does face a few challenges. For instance, the outcomes may depend on the participants, the setting, and the scenario, and it may be hard to pinpoint what led to the change in outcome.
Regardless, through all the direct and indirect benefits it has to offer, it is evident that simulation is effective at improving healthcare systems and processes. It can help streamline protocols without involving patients and help identify latent safety threats as well. It can also be used to test new approaches before adopting them in the real clinical setting. Additionally, measuring patient outcomes helps adopt best practices, and in turn, further improve outcomes.
Dexterity in various clinical skills such as examination, diagnostic reasoning, communication, and execution of clinical techniques is indispensable to the success of medical education paradigms. Over the years, the adoption of simulation-led training into the process has shown tremendous improvements in skill competency in the aspirants. By supplementing traditional learning approaches with simulation-led training, learners get hands-on experience along with diverse skill development and come out as confident, competent medical professionals able to handle the pressures of the real clinical setting.
Why do we need a Clinical Skills Lab or Simulation Centre?
Not only has there been a disproportionate increase in the number of students to that of trainers, the rapid advances in medical technology has made it harder for learners to receive optimal training through theory alone and reduced clinical skills standards among medical students. But for many reasons, it is not always possible to practice on real patients. Some of them may be clinically unstable, some may not be comfortable to be tended to by inexperienced learners, and for some, it might jeopardize patient safety and feel like a breach of their privacy.
What happens in a Clinical Skills Lab or Simulation Centre?
A clinical Skills Lab or Simulation Centre offers an immersive environment for healthcare professionals to develop clinical skills, communication skills, cognitive skills, and a compassionate approach to patient care. This is a controlled, safe, and forgiving environment for them to get hands-on experience for diverse scenarios. The experience provided by such a lab won’t be the same as practicing and learning on a real patient, but it’s the next best thing, benefitting novices and experts alike. And as they say, practice makes perfect.
These labs and centres usually, but not necessarily, have a reception area, skill studios, an ICU simulation room, an operation theatre simulation room, a pediatric ICU simulation room, AV facilities in the rooms, surgical simulation suites, ultrasound training rooms, seminar halls, a board room, faculty lounges, a student lounge, and necessities like storage, safety systems, and HVAC. Personnel in attendance may include a chief coordinator, supporting departmental staff, nursing staff, a receptionist, and a biomedical engineer.
With the help of state-of-the-art equipment, anatomic simulators, and sometimes, real actors, diverse scenarios and real life acute medical conditions can be simulated for students to learn and practice. Through these, they get to experience a hint of what kind of situations they can hope to expect when they transition to a real hospital. Additionally, it helps build the aforementioned skills in them.
Many of these high-fidelity simulators provide real-time feedback, but feedback is also offered through an instructor overseeing the scenario. The repeated practice also shortens their learning curve. By including aspects like bathroom spaces to simulate bathroom falls in the scenarios, the learning experience is made more realistic.
To complete the successful simulation experience, the participants are observed, analyzed, and debriefed on their thought processes and actions to improve their performance and learning outcomes. This is one of the most important aspects of simulation-led training.
Benefits of Clinical Skills Labs and Simulation Centres
Such a facility achieves the following:
It redefines medical education training and enables independent student learning
It delivers hands-on learning experiences
It accommodates the different learning requirements of students that come from different walks of life with various foundations, capabilities, and educational experiences
It increases preparedness in the learners before their transition to the real hospital setting, and it enables them to effectively deal with high-risk cases
It builds effective communication skills, cognitive skills, and psychomotor skills in the learners
It builds and highlights the role of collaboration and team building
Challenges to Establishing and Running Clinical Skills Labs and Simulation Centres
Given its obvious benefits to skill-based medical education, a clinical skills and simulation lab is an indispensable part of medical education for various positions today. But establishing and running such a lab comes with its own challenges.
From its beginning, setting up and running such a lab requires a hefty investment; this includes the cost of procurement and maintenance of simulators and their consumables, staff allowance, HVAC maintenance, and electricity bill, among others. Adjusting with the realism of the simulators is another challenge. Additionally, there are the challenges of time fixed for simulation training and teaching along with asset and resource availability and accessibility. There is the need to carefully balance time allotted for curriculum teaching and for simulation-based teaching.
Echocardiography, which is the use of ultrasound waves to observe the action of the heart, is known to be notoriously difficult to learn and requires extensive training to master. Can simulation in echocardiography be the answer to the growing demand?
Echocardiography needs a lot of skill to master
Today, cardiovascular diseases are one of the most common causes of death around the globe. And as they become more prevalent, the demand for diagnosis also increases. Since echocardiography is an affordable, non-invasive imaging technique that delivers immediate results, it is of importance to see how we can improve the learning process for aspiring learners. But it is difficult to learn.
Apart from being technically competent and practically skilled in what they do, echocardiographers need to understand:
The physics behind the modalities
Sufficient knowledge of the anatomy
The physiology and pathology of the heart
It is hard enough to handle the transducer and connect it to the heart’s anatomy, but they need to understand the basics of ultrasound physics and extract and assess information of the 3D heart from a 2D image.
Challenges to Learning Echocardiography
A 2019 study by Dieden, Carlson, and Gudmundsson discovered the main challenges to learning echocardiography, and the things that could aid the learning. Students found the main challenges to be:
The projections: It can be a sizeable task to steer the transducer and obtain a projection, and then make sense of it. And it can be hard for the students to link the projections to where in the heart the ultrasound beam cut.
Handling the probe: It can be hard for learners to figure out where to place, angle, and turn the transducer for some projections. They can be clueless about how to position and turn the transducer if they never have any practice.
Connecting ultrasound physics and measurements to practical application: Students can find it difficult to link the theory of ultrasound physics to practical performance with the machine.
Things That Help Students Learn Better
The study mentioned above also stated 5 things that would improve learning:
Immediate feedback: Real-time feedback and correction from instructors and the screens on the task trainers can improve the learning process; like if the screen can tell them whether they have placed the transducer correctly
Playing with the ultrasound machine: it allows learners to use the machine firsthand where no button is off-limits and nothing can go wrong
Video lectures
The possibility to swiftly alternate between practice and theory: while getting hands-on experience with the ultrasound machine helps learners practice what they just learned, it also helps them understand when and how to apply some concepts and measurements in the clinical setting
Learning by their mistakes in a risk-free environment without serious consequences: Students learn to accept that making mistakes is a positive part of the learning process and can make them better at the task
It is interesting to see that 4 out of the 5 things mentioned above can be achieved with the help of manikins and simulators. Using a manikin helps students learn echocardiography in a way that lets them truly understand the fundamentals behind what they are learning, and can even help learners link the anatomy of the heart, placing the probe, and the location of the beam. Echocardiographic simulation can aid traditional training strategies and improve their efficiency.
It can be hard to get real heart patients for learners to operate on. Additionally, if they do learn by operating on real patients, it can make the patients uncomfortable, put them at risk, and breach their privacy. And it can be hard for teachers to explain concepts to learners while managing the needs of a live patient.
It is well-known how simulators allow repeated practice of diverse scenarios ranging from high-risk to rare, and have been adopted into medical and surgical training. Numerous studies have proved that using simulations and mannequins for learning echocardiography is largely beneficial.
By incorporating simulation in echocardiography, learners profit by shorter learning times(by accelerating the learning process), better outcomes, and lower complication rates. They learn to manipulate the transducer better and angulate it to the skin safely, and comprehend the projections easily. Finally, incorporating simulation in echocardiography helps produce competency.
Nurses are the heart of healthcare. With that in mind, it is intriguing to discuss the benefits of a simulation-led approach to nursing education.
Through the inclusion of role-playing, devices, trained persons, trainers, environments, and lifelike manikins, promoting learning and eliminating risk for the trained and the novice alike, simulation-led learning creates the perfect opportunity for learners to acquire necessary nursing skills in a safe environment. This also offers the added advantage of building critical decision-making skills by simulating various real-life scenarios. Affected slightly by the level of fidelity, simulation-based learning for nursing education can have a range of benefits.
Hands-on Learning
While it is detailed and complete, theoretical learning can quickly become boring for a group of learners eager to become skilled professionals. Simulation-based learning solves this problem. Not only does it provide learners a way to learn specific skills by actually practicing them, it lets them do so in a safe environment.
Immediate Feedback
A multitude of simulators is designed to provide real-time feedback for the learner’s performance (often through a screen or through lifelike response to stimuli). This feedback can then be used to further improve a learner’s prowess in specific skills. And it all happens in a safe environment, successfully avoiding the risk of causing harm or inconvenience to real patients. Additionally, people learn better when they aren’t afraid of making mistakes.
Learning through Repetitive Practice
Practice makes perfect. Besides, with something as important as nursing, repeated practice builds skill, instills confidence, clarifies the fundamentals, and prepares the learner for stepping into a real clinical setting.
Building of Important Skills
Simulation allows learners the opportunity to practice caring for patients in ways that they cannot in the real-life hospital setting. Through several studies, it has been found that simulation-based learning for nursing education has a positive impact on knowledge acquisition, psychomotor skills, self-efficacy, satisfaction, confidence, critical thinking skills, and communication skills. It does all that within a safety net.
From mass casualty and wound care to mental health and end-of-life care, nursing skills education benefits from the adoption of a simulation-based approach to learning.
Benefits of a Simulation-Based Approach to Nursing Education
Teaching nursing skills through simulation involves a lot of role-playing and playing out realistic scenarios using actors and manikins. A student can pretend to be a patient, a nurse, a healthcare assistant, a manager, a student, a doctor, or even an angry relative. Imagine that as a student, you are pretending to be a nurse tending to three patients and receiving a call from the relatives of one of them. Think about what skills you would take home from that experience. No matter what scenario plays out, the result is improved patient care skills for everyone involved in the scenario. Simulation-based training is effective at bringing on the following changes in learners:
The ability to think on their feet
Refined communication and management skills
Acute decision-making skills
Confidence in their nursing abilities
The ability to work under pressure
Improved knowledge of nursing skills
Visibly improved technical skills
Stronger leadership skills
Developed self-confidence and attitude/aptitude for nursing
Students are exposed to rare clinical situations
Students are able to practice clinical reasoning skills
Other Miscellaneous Benefits
Other than the obvious benefits to the learning process and the learner, there are some other benefits to the nursing education system as a whole:
Enhanced patient safety and quality
Learners can manage patients without posing risk to actual humans
Controlled and safe learning environment
Structured feedback
Faster time to competence
Fills the gap in faculty/clinical site resources
Additionally, simulation-based nursing-skills training avoids inefficiency due to the following during training:
Feeling awkward for getting in the way of nurses’ work
Getting flustered by an unexpected situation or care instruction
Experiencing difficulty in adapting to training because many parts were not covered in school
It can safely be said that a simulation-based approach to nursing skills training lays the foundation for a student-centred learning paradigm. So owing to the array of benefits that it brings with itself, simulation-led training has secured its place in nursing skills training as an indispensable asset. And with further advancements in the technology, it may open up newer horizons of learning in nursing and other aspects of healthcare.
If you’re looking to purchase medical simulators for the purpose of nursing skills training, your search ends here, because SEM Trainers is the #1 provider of premium-quality simulation products sourced from Germany, USA, Japan, and Europe.
An opportunity for simulation of clinical experience with life-saving Emergency Medical Services (EMS) can be provided to Medical Students. In EMS Simulation Training for clinical skills lab, the EMS simulators imitate high-stress emergency scenarios for education and training purposes where students can practice procedures and treatments realistically, but without the risks.
Benefits of EMS Simulators
Concisely, EMS simulators are medical simulation devices that mimic real medical environments and situations so that learners can experience the demands of a real hospital environment in a safe environment. Learners can afford to make mistakes and receive feedback. Simulators are used so that students can gain experience before stepping out into the real-world, and so that we can avoid risks to the lives of real patients from being operated on by inexperienced students. This also helps avoid inconvenience to real patients. Such hands-on learning helps students make the transition from theory to practice. Other than training, EMS Simulators are being used for assessment and evaluation, which can be a closing part of coursework. These simulators also come in handy with system integration and improvement. Furthermore, they are being used to assist health-system and facility research efforts.
SEM Trainers & Systems provide some of the best professional-quality medical products that you can use:
This is an ALS patient monitor simulator for paramedic and HEMS training in Advanced Life Support. This monitor is a great tool for students to learn and train on a realistic platform with a simulated monitor, 5 generic patient monitor screens, defibrillator, AED, and ventilator.
This is an advanced vital sign simulation system that you can use to run multiple scenarios anywhere- even in an ambulance or a helicopter. It comes with 5 simulated proprietary patient monitor screens for training on vital signs. It has live video streaming, CPR feedback, and simulated patient records. It looks, sounds, and functions like a real patient monitor.
This manikin offers simplicity of operation in a highly advanced trainer. It is a great add-on to your list of EMS Simulators. It can be used for physician training, nursing school training, hospital and clinic training programs, paramedic training, military battle field training, disaster response training, and a multitude of other medical training applications.
Only high fidelity manikin that is operated with an iPad!
Full-body, adult manikin
Trains students in EMS, nursing, and trauma skills
Provides experience with cardiac and medical disease care
Anatomical landmarks
Mobile and wireless
Rechargeable
No external programs or equipment necessary
This simulator can function in the lab and in the field ascertaining diagnostic ability. Student performances records can be transferred to a computer, and chronological scenario event logs can be printed.
Durable and can be placed in different indoor and outdoor environments
Can be used with Microsoft Windows
Has an on-board air compressor, and includes iPad® programming, storage for students’ performances, spontaneous breathing, pulses, blood pressure, carotid and femoral pulses, normal and emergent heart and lung sounds, 12 pulse points synchronized with the heart, EKG interpretation and cardiac treatment, IV and drug therapy, tension pneumothorax treatment, chest tube insertion with simulated drainage, and advanced difficult airway maintenance
This is a resuscitation system for teaching life-saving techniques for children, with PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support) training capabilities. With all skill stations available, it simulates a 5 year old. It has airway management, intraosseous infusion, blood pressure arm, CPR, IV arm, defibrillation chest, and femoral access.
This baby simulator includes all physiological features of a baby and helps develop student assessment skills by managing student information, creating scenarios, and tracking sessions for review and debriefing. This simulator in the list of EMS Simulators , satisfies every training need for post-neonatal care of pediatric patients.
The torso presents as a patient lying on his back with
Surgical access is lateral to the pectoralis major
The arm has been removed for easier access and extended for anatomical relevance
The ribs can be clearly felt below the surface of the skin
Trainees can make an incision through the fleshy part, surgically dividing the tissue with blunt forceps until the plural cavity is clearly felt by finger insertion
Complete finger rotation is possible, allowing the trainee to ensure that there are no obstructions before a drainage system can be introduced
The popping effect of passing through the pleura is realistic and a unique feature
A drain can be securely sutured into position onto this simulated flesh
The newly designed Life/form® Cricothyrotomy Simulator has been developed for learning and practicing the techniques necessary to perform needle or surgical cricothyrotomy procedures. Paramedics, EMTs, combat medics, flight nurses, anesthesiologists, and other emergency medical personnel will have the opportunity to strengthen their ability and confidence to perform or assist in implementing surgical airways.
This simulator is perfect for training for pericardiocentesis, and includes fluid reservoir bag, foot pump, surgical skin pads, subcutaneous surgical pads, nurse training pads, pneumothorax pads, blood powder, simulated pericardium, IV bag and a hard carry case.
Recommended by EMT (Emergency Medical Training) instructors, this model permits instruction of the delicate procedure for successfully managing chest wounds in which a collapsed lung interferes with the victim’s respiration and blood flow.
The model accepts needle and thoracotomy in the second intercostal space, in the mid-clavicular line, the fifth intercostal space in the mid-axillary line. A realistic training aid to practice proper needle insertion which enables built-up air pressure to escape the thorax.
The Truman Trauma System offers an anatomically correct simulated human torso designed for trainees to practice several surgical procedures together with the renowned AirSim head for training the full range of airway management and resuscitation skills. The Truman Trauma System also allows the use of replaceable tissue sets that allow each learner a life-like & unique surgical experience.
Skill Development:
Chest tube insertion: recognition of correct position, surgical incision, blunt dissection through chest wall, perforation of pleura, and finger sweep
Needle Decompression of tension pneumothorax
Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
Needle and Surgical Cricothyroidotomy
Airway Management Skills including OP and NP airway tube insertion, tracheal intubation, bag valve mask techniques, supraglottic airway insertion and ventilation
Percutaneous Tracheostomy
Identification of tracheal deviation and jugular vein distension which are warning signs attributed to tension pneumothorax
This simulation kit helps train bandaging and patient care skills for more complex wounds. It has an open amputation, a compound fracture of humerus, a compound fracture of tibia, a sucking wound of chest, and a gunshot wound of palm, along with 24 stick-on lacerations and open fracture wounds. It also comes with makeup accessories.
This simulation kit simulates disasters like bus accidents and building explosions, and attempts to address a wide variety of training situations. It includes wounds, fractures, lacerations, amputations, burns, makeup accessories, and even blood powder for simulated blood!
This trainer simulates shock delivery (without high voltages) to familiarize responders with AED devices, and has 10 training scenarios to simulate sudden cardiac arrests.
This high quality and economical AHA compliant BLS manikin is a complete solution to train, monitor, analyse and debrief CPR performances. The manikin connects with the app using a strong and reliable Bluetooth connection – no need to set up a wireless network.
The Instructor App provides a detailed performance review of up to six manikins at a time while the Student App enables trainees to directly see and monitor their CPR performance in real-time.
The CPR apps provide feedback for:
Compression (depth, recoil, and rate)
Breath (volume)
Hands-off time in real-time
Feedback and evaluation meet the standard of the latest guidelines of the American Heart Association (AHA) and the European Resuscitation Council (ERC).
The new Quality CPR training manikin offered by 3B Scientific enables instructors and healthcare providers to measure, monitor and analyze the CPR performance of up to 10 trainees at a time. CPRLilly Pro+ helps instructors increase effectiveness and efficiency in their CPR courses by connecting with the free CPRLilly App on tablet to follow the CPR performance and deliver objective feedback leading to Quality CPR training (App available on Apple and Google play). It also enables trainees to see and monitor their own performance in real-time with the student view of the App. LED lights located directly on manikin’s neck provide direct CPR feedback and indicate correct compressions parameters (depth, release and rate).
Auscultation is an essential clinical skill needed to assess and monitor patients’ conditions. With the Cardionics SAM II Student Auscultation Manikin, teaching and learning this skill becomes even more versatile and economic. The SAM II trainer can be used with any stethoscope. All sounds and videos are recorded from live patients for students to experience a life-like simulation. Users can also create and save their own case videos.
SAM II Student Auscultation Manikin is used in teaching and learning heart, lung and bowel sounds. When connected to the laptop (included) with the pre-installed software, a variety of sounds, videos and lessons recorded can be accessed.
“The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.” – Florence Nightingale
Sending newly qualified nurses out into the real world to deal with patients and unexpected situations as they present themselves can manufacture inconvenience and risk that can be avoided. All skills take time and practice, but trial-and-error- is dangerous and unsuitable to a real clinical setting. Simulation is an extremely powerful tool to prepare these learners for the demands of a real hospital environment.
Nursing Skills Lab Setup
A nursing skills lab will be a safe, controlled environment equipped with full-body manikins, task trainers (lifelike anatomy models that help learners practice a skill by breaking down a task into smaller, simpler actions and allowing repeated practice), and other hospital equipment. This is a realistic platform for students to learn without the risk of harming or discomforting a patient. In a nursing skills lab, mistakes are opportunities to learn.
Some activities that are part of a nursing skills lab:
The purpose of nursing skills simulation is to prepare aspiring nurses to communicate, motivate, delegate, prioritize, make quick decisions, and respond to change in a real-life situation. It serves to acclimatize nursing students to the real-life clinical environment and gives them an idea of what to expect, developing confidence and acumen.
Simulation can be an excellent strategy to prepare learners to think on their feet, hone their management skills, and learn to make real-time patient care decisions before transitioning into the real world as qualified nurses. This is a safe environment to assess how they respond to unexpected events and whether they succumb or thrive under pressure. It can be a rich learning experience for aspiring student nurses. Nursing skills simulation is a great way to allow nursing students to experience dealing with patients first-hand in a controlled environment while allowing them to explore how to deal with errors.
Roles & Scenarios in a Nursing Skills Lab
Learners may be assigned roles and placed in diverse scenarios making use of predetermined events. Some roles that may be assigned include:
A patient with a mental and/or physical health issue (or a manikin may be used as a patient)
A staff nurse tending to three patients, subordinates, and students
A healthcare assistant
A student performing a placement
An angry relative
A manager telling ward staff of a change of events
A doctor or a relative calling the ward
Once the roles are assigned, learners may be placed in scenarios that realistically model challenges likely to be faced by newly qualified nurses. Some of these are:
A patient suffering a cardiac arrest in presence of other patients.
Incorrect medication has been administered because of a wrong prescription.
An angry relative rambling on and distracting the nurse.
A demanding patient.
A person calling the ward to complain at a busy time.
Benefits of a Simulation Environment
The use of simulation in nursing furnishes a plethora of benefits to the learner:
Knowledge
Technical skills
Attitude
Motivation and satisfaction
Self-confidence
Reflection
Leadership
Efficiency and effectiveness
Patient safety
Nursing Skills Simulation: How it Works
Simulation is performed in three steps – planning, implementation, and evaluation.
1. Planning a Simulation
This involves developing realistic scenarios, writing scripts, and preparing the environment. This is done keeping in mind the learning objectives and the availability of realistic materials.
2. Implementing a Scenario
With the required material and decided objectives, students may be briefed at the venue. In this way, this step involves:
Briefing: Familiarizing students with the setting
Action: Conducting the scenario in 10-15 minutes
Debriefing: Reflecting on the simulation with positive reinforcement and analysis
3. Evaluating a Simulation
Finally, the students’ performance is assessed via formative and summative evaluations.
Simulators from SEM Trainers
If you’re looking to purchase medical simulators for the purpose of nursing skills training, SEM Trainers has premium-quality simulation products sourced from Germany, USA, Japan, and Europe.
Simulation has been shown to provide positive learning experiences for aspiring nursing students and improve their acumen and skills. It makes learners capable and contributes to patient safety across the world. Are you taking advantage of all the possibilities nursing skills simulation has to offer?
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