CPR Training Manikin Choices: Fine Options

 

Full body patient manikins of mid to high-fidelity (as opposed to partial task trainers or basic CPR models) offer unique educational advantages in life support training. The ability to practice urgent, life-saving resuscitation skills on a realistic manikin enhances skills in critical patient care, sometimes delivering greater benefits than traditional teaching methods alone. The CPR Training Manikin work perfect there.

Emergency care training on a full body, mid-fidelity manikin (or, simulator) provides several unique opportunities for immersive learning experiences. These include:

·        dynamic patient-caregiver interactivity (i.e., questioning; receiving verbal responses)

·        real-time physiologically-based reactions to interventions (tactile and/or haptic feedback)

·        ability to perform patient assessments that incorporate reactive eyes and/or a full range of pulses (bilateral, carotid, femoral, etc)

·        articulating limbs and cervical motion for practice in patient stabilization

·        wound care, lower extremity intramuscular administration, vascular access, and blood draw training

Physicians, nurses, paramedics and emergency medicine teams who practice critical patient care with simulation tend to demonstrate a noticeable improvement in overall scoring and assessment. A majority of learners express a heightened degree of comfort, confidence, and competence in their clinical performance after their simulation training.

Patient simulation is a proven, purposeful training tool that allows the learner to practice emergency care under realistic (yet controlled and safe) conditions. CAE Ares is full body emergency care manikin that facilitates emergency care training by presenting a range of essential scenarios, from prehospital to in-hospital care and more.

Conclusion

One such study reported an improvement in residents' skills following a simulator-based program. This was a randomized control study that evaluated residents based on ACLS protocols. Months after training, the study found an improvement in residents who participated in simulations. These improvements were sustained over time with little decay, indicating that simulation positively enhanced performance to a greater degree than clinical training alone.