NHS Introduces Pediatric Simulator

July 27, 2008

Earlier this month, the School of Nursing & Health Studies introduced a brand new pediatric simulator to the school's O'Neill Family Foundation Clinical Simulation Center.

The wireless simulator--a Newborn HAL Mobile Team Trainer manufactured by Gaumard Scientific--mimics a variety of human functions, including lung and heart sounds, blood pressure, and active motion. The robotic baby can replicate seizures and become cyanotic, or turn blue. In addition, it can be intubated and attached to hospital equipment.

"The new simulator exposes our students to a pediatric patient so that they can manage a critical event before they experience it in the real-life clinical arena," said Stephen Hurst, the NHS director of medical technologies.

The addition of the pediatric simulator builds upon the center's dynamic learning environment, which also includes GUS--an adult patient simulator, two simulated hospital bed units, and five simulated provider offices.

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