Emergency Care Simulator provides human reactions to help students respond to serious situations

The Crimson White Online -By the fall, all of the critical courses in the UA nursing curriculum will be using METI, said Becky Edwards[O5], director of facilities, technology and distance education in the college and who, along with Adams, serves as one of the college's two METI coordinators.

"With an average dummy, our students can do a lot of skills such as bandaging, but it doesn't respond," Edwards said.

Before this semester, students practiced with an average dummy and pretended to see responses that a human would have, but they couldn't see what actually happened, Adams said.

Now those students can see the effect of their action on the patient. Students are learning how drugs react with the body, how different diagnoses affect the body and how to make critical decisions related to different situations from METI.

"Students can see the laboratory experience, so when they get to in the hospital, they can make better decisions," Adams said.

Human Patient Simulators- �Look who�s talking now�

The South End Newspaper - News - CAMPUS - �Look who�s talking now� Dr. Howard J. Normile, associate dean at the college, is trying to publicize the advantages of human patient simulators.
The HPS provides students with a whole new experience with hands-on curriculum. An HPS is an extremely detailed, life-sized mannequin with numerous human characteristics including blinking eyes with pupils that react to light, a heartbeat and bodily fluid secretions.

ATLANTIC STORM: EXERCISE ILLUMINATES TRANSATLANTIC LEADERS REACTIONS TO BIOTERROR ATTACK

Center for Biosecurity of UPMC - Bioterrorism, Biodefense, Public Health Preparedness ATLANTIC STORM: EXERCISE ILLUMINATES TRANSATLANTIC LEADERS REACTIONS TO BIOTERROR ATTACK

What would world leaders do if they were faced with a bioterrorist attack on cities around the world? How would they react to a fast-moving and deliberately caused epidemic? These questions were raised last week in Wasington, DC at Atlantic Storm, a table-top exercise that simulated a smallpox attack on the nations of the transatlantic community. The ministerial bioterrorism exercise was presented by the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, the Center for Transatlantic Relations of Johns Hopkins University, and the Transatlantic Biosecurity Network.

The scenario presented to the participants was the simultaneous outbreak of smallpox in several cities: Istanbul, Frankfurt, and Rotterdam, with attacks in the U.S. surfacing later in the day. It was made clear early on that the disease had been spread deliberately, and a terrorist group claimed responsibility for the action.

NBCSandiego.com - NBC 7/39 Special Reports - Inside The Hot Zone

NBCSandiego.com - NBC 7/39 Special Reports - Inside The Hot Zone