Biomedical Engineering Reference
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Figure 21.1
Patient #2, portrayed by a robotic patient simulator, receiving extensive invasive treatments by clinicians in the
emergency department: intubation, chest tube, and IV access.
treatment facilities must be directed away from
patient-care areas.
Patient 6, a live actor, plays a charge nurse who
has been working in the ED for the entire scenario,
becomes infected from contagious patients, vomits,
and then leaves the ED. This actor emphasizes
the fact that infectious diseases can contaminate
clinical personnel who disregard precautions and
fail to protect themselves.
21.8.3 Students' Goals
Correctly allocate finite resources to minimize
morbidity and mortality during a mass-casualty
bio-contamination event.
21.8.4 Setting
Emergency Operations Command Center (EOCC).
21.8.5 Participants and their Roles
during production
Students play themselves as non-clinicians and
provide non-clinical command and control
21.8 EXAMPLE 2: Non-clinical Students
Non-clinical students, as a crisies-management
team in an EOCC, allocate resources from their
treatment facility in response to a SARS-like event.
in
response to the event.
Actors and simulation professionals are out-
of-sight generators of questions and answers via
phone calls and simulated TV news programs (live-
interactive or taped).
21.8.1 Students
Disaster Management Team personnel.
21.8.2 Instructor's Teaching Objectives
Familiarization with command, control, communi-
cation and collaboration actions, and responsibili-
ties during a facility-wide infection crisis.
21.8.6 Simulation Resources and
Requirements
Use a real EOCC, or if the actual EOCC is unavail-
able, stage a simulated EOCC in a conference
