Virtual patients can also cry
Hermís is called a new Hermi and Legal Center of the University of Iceland and Landspitali and it is safe to say that the seat is one of the most technical in Europe. It will change all facilities for teaching health sciences within the UI and the training of Landspitali staff. There was a lot of journalist’s eyes, but on the second floor of Eirberg there is now a kind of « precipitate » hospital.
In many spacious rooms and spaces you could see perfect virtual patients, both children and adults, who can get sick from all possible diseases, go into cardiac arrest, sweat, blown and suffer all possible shocks. There, UI students and Landspitali staff can practice virtual patients and not living people.
Thorsteinn Jónsson Intensive Care Nurse has managed the structure of the Hermit Center and is the director there. Thorstein and his staff led a journalist around the area and nothing else could be swept by the technology and the innovations that could be seen there.
The teaching is the main thing
« It’s all brand new; we have been working for a few months but are opening today, » says Thorsteinn, but Hermís was officially opened on Wednesday.
« This is intended for all the University of Health Sciences and the Landspitali staff, » says Thorsteinn, leading a journalist first in a space where the smallest virtual patients lie.
« Here is the scope for mistakes that can be learned from, something that is not possible in the real world. Responses to serious happenings can be practiced over and over until skills are achieved. Here are very powerful computer -controlled virtual patients who move hands, breathe and blink their eyes and more, » he says.
« This is complicated and technological, but the main thing is the teaching that takes place here. On screens you can see life boundaries such as heartbeat. It is possible to control virtual patients from another room and you can make them cry or moan, » he says, and at that time there is a cry from a small virtual patient.
Ásdís Björk Jóhannsdóttir examines the boundaries.
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Exercise the resuscitation of children
In the next room there is a kind of virtual surgery where students and staff can practice in a virtual patient, but it is precisely « taking bottom » from one of them.
« We have 14 virtual patients in all sizes, vile. The screen here is very disciplined teaching, ”he says.
« We regularly practice emergency cases, such as resuscitation for children who go into cardiac arrest. We also do how to learn communication and don’t always just have virtual patients.
« We have cameras and sounds and can shed in every direction. We can also record the lessons and thus go over what was well done and what could have done better, » he says.
« It is so important to be able to combine the teaching and the clinic, » says Karítas Gunnarsdóttir, a specialist in child nursing, who works at the emergency room of children and also handles military training.
Mimics a real birth
In yet another space is Berglind Hálfdánsdóttir, associate professor of midwifery, where there is teaching in midwifery. Virtual patients, or even clips of them, can be seen widely on tables and can be practiced in birth and sewing.
Berglind knows everything about births and women’s medicine.
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« Here is a birth simulator that likes to be quite well after a real birth and here we train except to receive children and train them as well if it should have to sew ribs in a spangle area after birth, » she says, but there are also aids to help women breastfeed.
« We also have equipment here to teach various related women’s health, such as internal views and loop installation, » she says.
Hermann was predatory
In one room one lies Hermann, the oldest virtual patient. He has become a little tired but serves his purpose well.
« However, he can do a lot of things and was predatory at the time, » says Thorsteinn, showing a journalist new types of virtual patients who lie in their beds and wait for students and staff.
« We are certainly on our way into a new era in the dissemination and training of healthcare professionals with this new seat that has already attracted attention beyond the country’s stones, » says Thorsteinn, and eventually hopes that continued grants can continue to continue the good work that takes place in Hermís.
