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Brett Massie: Right now he's running as what we call Stan Deardman or Standard Man.
So we're getting base physiology right now, he's breathing, he's blinking now that
he's sort of up and running. He runs off of a motor, if you will, or a compressor.
Inside of here we can see the lungs expand and the chest moves up and down. You have
his battery pack and here is his circuit board and essentially, it's a router that connects
to our computer as a work station so he has sort of a wireless router in himself. The
great thing about the Meti Man, is his ability to provide us with real time physiology. We're
going to be able to take a real time blood pressure and we're going to get a reading
just like you would on an actual real person.
Jeremy Hiler: We were actually learning about the eyes not too long ago and we learned about
subdural and epidural hematomas and how the pupils react to a blown pupil.
Brett Massie: Light comes in and we get a constriction of the pupil, take the light
away and it bounces back. Both eyes for this individual right now, he's uninjured and
is relatively normal both are going to react accordingly. They will be able to notice his
tongue swelling in certain situations. In concert with an EMT, with that tongue swelling,
they may be able to perform a tracheotomy on the Meti Man. So this is the area where
the tracheotomy would occur and then be able to insert the tracheotomy tube. We can perform
real time chest compressions in a situation where we are needing to do CPR and actually
see the result of that on an EKG as you work with a real patient.
Cody Costanzo: It's basically just a bionic man in a way. It can share the same symptoms
as what we'd see in real life
Brett Massie: He can mimic things that we really can't mimic with each other. You
know, if the students want to model different things they can model them with the lab. Hey,
I've got a head injury, but they can't mimic the pupil reaction, they can't mimic
the decreased pathology. They can't mimic physiology. We can with the Meti Man. We can
set him up to have that head injury, we can set him up to have a neck injury to where
there could be some catastrophic consequences if not treated correctly. The nice thing is
the student can learn on the Meti Man and we know if we do something wrong, he is a
simulator. It's going to be used beyond athlete training. You know, we can look at
the physiology and simply just throw that up in an exercise physiology class. Look and
see how the body reacts to different stimuli. Our plan is to also run some weekend seminars
and workshops with local athlete trainers, with EMTs, talk about what it is that each
group does and how we hand that patient off and use a simulator as part of that. The possibilities
are somewhat limitless.