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Sim Man 3G is the latest in simulation manikins, we have two of them in the University. We're
going to use this throughout the health programme and the pharmacy programme.
So if I start him, what we've got here is a gentleman who's been admitted to the A&E
department suffering from acute shortness of breath, so the idea would be that the students
can acknowledge the fact that he's having problems and do something about it. The beauty
of this is that I can then pause it (pause), it can be discussed with the students. Normally
he would breathe in and out and his eyes will blink and his pupils are fully reactive to
light so you can check his pupil responses, he's got bilateral pulses so you can actually
palpate his pulses on his feet, behind his ankles, behind his knees, both wrists, his
femoral pulses and his carotid pulses which you would do in a normal person. He's got
a full range of sounds within his chest so that you can actually put a stethoscope in
your ears and you can listen to his heart sounds, his breath sounds and his bowel sounds.
He's got ports on his head where you can have tears, nasal secretions, oral secretions,
secretions from his ears; you can inject him with drugs into this port in his arm and you
can insert chest drains, both sides; so basically what he does is he mimics a real person.
Simulations use a thing called radio frequency ID tags and there's a range of them supplied,
each of them can be attached to the different devices that they represent, and the monitor
and the simulator recognises that you've (pause) applied the drugs to the simulation and then
the whole system recognises and responds appropriately. Sim Man provides the students with the closest
we can give them to a real-life scenario. So we're going to provide simulation for the
students in a safe environment where they can practise outside of the real-world. The
simulations are limited by the imagination of the instructor who's developing them.