A pair of nurses at Logan Regional Hospital surrounded the bed of a newborn infant on Wednesday morning. The child, affectionately referred to as Baby Tory by the staff, was experiencing difficulties breathing on her own — intubation needed to be performed, and time was of the essence.
But however lifelike their young patient seemed from a distance, a closer look at the newborn revealed the truth — she was actually a remarkably human simulation, a computer program designed to look, feel and react exactly like a newborn exhibiting any medical ailment the staff programs.
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Hospital and EMS Teams Use Gaumard High-Fidelity Manikins in Trauma Training
Several hospital staff and emergency responders in Lincoln County, Oregon, participated in simulation-based trauma training to be better prepared to handle coordinated care.
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If It Cries Like a Baby…
On this week’s Tech Nation, if it looks like a newborn baby and moves like one and sounds like one, well, it just might be Super Tory, the newborn simulator from Gaumard Scientific.
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Special delivery at MassBay Framingham
MassBay Community College has a new Victoria Advanced Birthing and Neonatal simulator mannequin for its EMT and paramedics classes to teach about labor and delivery at the Framingham campus. The simulators are made by Gaumard Scientific.