Patient+Simulators


 * Patient Simulators**

Traditional medical training have often being limited to plastic mannequins with limited functionality.

These can be very useful in order to practise procedures in which a real human will be required.

They have many advantages such as:


 * Mimic the functions of a human body
 * Offers a wide variety of procedures such as working with lungs, eyes, blood pressure, airways etc.
 * More advanced models can react to drug injections
 * Can be tailored to certain needs
 * Different model sizes such as child, woman, man
 * Improve the realism of medical training
 * No risk to real patients
 * Skill assessments for doctors and users

However, there are several major flaws to using patient simulators. One disadvantage would be that simulators are never a real match to actual humans so the results that are achieved may not be applicable to humans. Another thing would be that the enviroment could change, as every different situation will requirements.

By Finlay