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Mannequins help medical students prepare for surgical crises.
Byline: Patricia Corrigan
ST. LOUIS _ The patient, covered with a green drape, lies on the table in the operating room. Dr. Caroline Hall and Dr. Ryan Leifheit, first-year residents in anesthesiology at St. Louis University, move smoothly between the monitors and the patient, who is undergoing surgery for a broken wrist. Suddenly, concerned about a report from one of the monitors, Leifheit says, "We've got a leak. This is a disaster."
Leifheit attempts to determine the origin of the problem. With Hall, he backtracks to when the problem first occurred, and they try to correct it. Eventually, the patient stabilizes, and the surgery is complete. "Let's take her to recovery before something else happens," says Leifheit, an expression of profound relief evident on his face.
From a control room behind an observation window with one-way glass comes the voice of Dr. Nahel Saied: "That's the point. Anything can happen any time."
Saied is an assistant professor of anesthesiology at the SLU School of Medicine and the director of the simulation program at the school's Life Support Skills Center. The patient is not a "her" at all, but a $240,000 life-sized, computer-controlled simulator mannequin named Eddie.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Mannequins help medical students prepare for surgical crises.