With the help of a proposal submitted by the UMC Foundation, ASTEC was awarded a grant from The Wings Like Eagles Foundation-Golden Eagle Distributors to obtain electronic videotape equipment to expand the educational power of ASTEC to save lives.  The expansion of videotape capabilities will dramatically impact education and training in the following ways:

• Students who have just completed training sessions can immediately view their own just-completed performances on the mannequins, which will reinforce lessons just learned; they can also revisit those sessions later for additional learning.

• Physicians conducting the training sessions with students can review their approaches to and involvement in the sessions and thereby adjust them for increased efficiency in the future.

• Other doctors, nurses, and medical staff can view selected sessions and so enhance their own abilities to respond to crisis situations.  In other words, the videotapes themselves can become invaluable teaching tools.

• Ultimately, the videotapes can be assembled in a library of specific simulation cases and procedures to be made available to a broad audience of medical professionals.

• Converted to compact discs, the videotapes can be used by the ASTEC and UMC staff for public relations and outreach purposes.

Heather Cahan, MD Granted Virginia Furrow Award

September, 2008

Neonatologist Heather Cahan, MD was granted a Virginia Furrow Award for her educational proposal:  "Simbaby: Putting the practice back into medical practice." The award allowed for the acquisition the Laerdal Neonatal Patient Simulator: SimNewB as a recent addition to the ASTEC Family.  This new addition allows for increased mobility of simulation training conducted both within the UMC NICU and remote locations as outreach programs in Nogales, Pine Top and Sierra Vista.

Click here to view a gallery of the SimNewB in action.

The Use of a Clinical Simulator for the Evaluation of Physician Responses to Emergent Severe Contrast Reactions: A Training Paradigm

July, 2008

Dr. Allan J. Hamilton, MD, FACS and Alyson Knapp conducted an interactive Lecture and Simulation Demonstration at the Siemens Annual Interventional Radiology Conference in Las Vegas, NV.  Audience members responded to a severe contrast reaction using a high fidelity patient simulator (METI, Inc.) to identify common mistakes and explore methods of improviing patient outcomes.

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