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• The Program's objective is to enhance the knowledge and skills of health care professionals to meet the public health preparedness and emergency response demands resulting from acts of bioterrorism and other incidents.

Manikins

Face to face training with interactive manikins

Many face-to-face IBAPP courses will benefit from the integration of medical simulators such as interactive manikins or body parts. The ability to identify the effects of abnormal or normal skin reactions to biological agent exposure is a critical competency in bioterrorism awareness. An interactive course can include simulations to help students acquire this skill. For example, select face to face courses will integrate interactive manikins and body-part simulations that will replicate the effects of toxic agents/gases on the skin and on the central nervous system by producing realistic frothy, bodily fluids from tear ducts, nose, and mouth. Such an environment is likely to be more engaging and will provide better opportunities for learning and working within teams. We have selected the SimMan® from Laerdal® to support our training because it is already being used in a number of departments at ISU. SimMan® is a portable and advanced patient simulator for team training. It has realistic anatomy and clinical functionality and provides simulation-based education to challenge and test students’ clinical and decision-making skills during realistic patient care scenarios. This advanced manikin allows learners to practice the emergency treatment of patients (Figure 1).

Figure 1 An ISU nursing instructor demonstrating a medical procedure using the SimMan®

ISU has recently purchased the SimBaby® (Figure 2) which is a portable advanced interactive infant patient simulator for team training. Like the SimMan®, it has realistic anatomy and clinical functionality that enables simulation training.

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Figure 2 The SimBaby®

To address the increasingly important goal for clinicians, first responders, and educators to be able to recognize, diagnose and treat the symptoms of bioterrorism attacks, we are procuring additional modules that will enhance the instrumented manikins that are also in use in the ISU Nursing department to increase their effectiveness in bioterrorism preparedness training. For example, The Laerdal Simulated Smallpox Module Set (Figure 3) provides opportunities for students to identify the effects of abnormal and normal skin reactions. The set also includes a blank deltoid pad for practice inoculation. These modules can be adapted with many Laerdal manikins that use deltoid injection pads like the SimMan®. Another example is the Laerdal Simulated Nuclear/biological/chemical training module that can replicate the effects of toxic gasses on the central nervous system by producing realistic, frothy, bodily fluids that emanate from tear ducts, mouth and nose (Figure 4).

Figure 3: Smallpox Module Set

Figure 4: Nuclear/biological/chemical training module

College of Technology SimMan Demonstration

Dave Pederson and The College of Technology Physician's Assistant program simulate a basic cardiac scenario on a high-fidelity manikin to demonstrate the usefulness of the manikan as a medical instruction tool during the Idaho Health Care Association Conference held at the Boise Center On The Grove on 07/19/2006.