PEDIATRIC CARE SIMULATOR S150 BY GAUMARD

Five year old pediatric patient care simulator with realistic organs

Training is the first and potentially most important step in the acquisition of irrefutable expertise. Alas, practicing advanced clinical processes is not always accessible for doctors and interns. Gaumard’s pediatric care simulator S150, pragmatically named Mike® and Michelle®, appears to be a sophisticated yet intuitive option for that stage. The simulators are realistic models of 5 years old children, with functioning organs such as the heart, lungs, articulated body parts (neck, jaw, head etc.) and producing body sounds and reactions (bilateral lung expansion with realistic chest rise during BVM, true-to-life airway with tongue etc.). Actually, enumerating the human-like features results in an endless task, so the simplest alternative would be to mentally picture a human body. Have you done so? Well, that is almost precisely what you get when you dispose of the pediatric Care Simulator S150. All medical activities (injections, insertion of a tracheostomy tube, manual inspection and palpation etc.) can be performed on the child-like model. Competence and self-confidence, two words rapidly associated to the device and opening the door to undeniable improvement of health education and care.