A high-tech new mannequin is taking center stage on one university campus here in the Valley. It’s a device that’s training a new generation of doctors to deliver babies.
Meet Victoria. The University of Arizona College of Medicine in Phoenix is the only site in the Southwest receiving the “Victoria” birthing simulator.
“This is a mannequin that does everything from a normal vaginal delivery, to coding, to having a seizure,” says says Dr. Maria Mariquez. “It lets us train the student in a controlled environment so that when they are a participant in an actual delivery or during their residency, they had an opportunity to practice some very scary episodes but ones that happened in a controlled environment.”
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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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At AWHONN 2016, Gaumard Shows Obstetric & Neonatal Nurses How Simulation Training Can Help to Reduce Infant & Maternal Morbidity & Mortality
In 2013, 289,000 women and nearly two million babies died during childbirth, according to a report published by the United Nations Population Fund.
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Victoria Featured in Boston Business Journal: This MGH Institute Patient Gives Birth Every 30 Minutes — and Students Take Note
Victoria is a blinking, breathing, birthing $80,000 robot, designed to help graduate health care students at the MGH Institute of Health Professions.
