A state-of-the-art simulation centre has opened at West Middlesex Hospital.
The centre features a range of high-tech Manikin simulators which breathe, talk, give birth and vomit, recreating the ailments of real patients so doctors, nurses and medical students can practise their emergency medicine training in a realistic scenario-based environment.
Dr Jasmin Cheema, accident and emergency consultant and emergency medicine simulation lead for West Middlesex, said the centre offered clinicians a new way to learn.
She said: “The centre offers a variety of high-tech simulation training that can be tailored to your needs.
“It is no longer ‘see one, do one, teach one’; it is now about ‘seeing one, practising many’ in a controlled environment, before doing one in real life.”
The Isleworth hospital, where about a third of patients are from Richmond, is one of the first hospitals in the country to have such a high-tech simulation facility and boasts state-of-the-art simulation dummies that are used by the likes of the US military.
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