Objective: Chemical warfare agents are potential threats to military personnel and civilians. The potential for associated traumatic injuries is significant. Damage control surgery could expose medical personnel to agents contaminating the wounds.
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August 2005
This study describes a comparison between an animal model and a haptic enabled, needle based, graphical user interface simulator (SimPL), for teaching Diagnostic Peritoneal Lavage (DPL). Forty novice medical students were divided into two groups and then trained to perform a DPL on either a pig or the SimPL. All subjects completed a pre and post test of basic knowledge and were tested by performing a DPL on a TraumaMan mannequin and evaluated by two trauma surgeons blinded to group.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Human patient simulation (HPS) has been used since 1969 for teaching purposes. Only recently has technology advanced to allow application to the complex field of trauma resuscitation. The purpose of our study was to validate an advanced HPS as an evaluation tool of trauma team resuscitation skills.
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