Thu Feb 09 2012
by Laura Freeman
Reporter
Hudson -- EMS workers will practice life-saving techniques on a new state-of-the-art training dummy after Council unanimously approved its purchase May 5.
EMS will buy the METIman pre-hospital patient simulator from Medical Education Technologies Inc. for $34,272, with $30,000 coming from a grant from the Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation.
The remaining money will come from the EMS fund. The cost includes the Emergency Care Simulator and training for two operators.
EMS Director Bruce Graham said he will order the patient simulator should be delivered by the end of June.
EMS workers will likely begin training with the new simulator in August.
Graham said the patient simulator can sit up, make noises, cry and even speak with help. Students can take blood pressure, a pulse and insert needles into it.
If a student does something wrong, the patient simulator will react accordingly.
The patient simulator provides hands-on realistic training for EMS workers and prepares them for real-life situations, Graham said.
He says the patient simulator would help EMS officials assess the clinical skills of volunteers.
"The product simulates a sick patient, which you can't do with a real person," said EMS Training Coordinator Cris Methvin.
E-mail: lfreeman@recordpub.com
Phone: 330-688-0088 ext. 3150
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