Abstract
The main use of the center in Argentina called the “Simulation in Stabilization and Transport of Critical Patients,” is to train emergency clinicians, nurses, and technicians in the management of critical events during the different phases of prehospital and interhospital critical patient transport. The emphasis is on critically ill patients who unexpectedly develop serious conditions that should be rapidly diagnosed and treated given the limited resources during transport. A simulation program for critical care transport was prepared. Real clinical monitors are designed to detect, analyze, and present signals only from real sensors attached to real signal generators (live patients) that are under the “control” of real physiology and pharmacology. The clinical instructor's knowledge was chosen for both the control and the presentation decision-making functions. A computer program, written in Pascal using the Delphi programming tool, was created to provide the operator with various clinical values and signal shapes in accordance with required real vital sign information values and display formats. For simplicity in programming and ease of use, any models within the program were chosen to be excluded. All vital sign alterations are done manually through a standard PC keyboard. The clinical signals chosen to include are those typically used for real trauma and shock patients during ambulance transport.
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