As a result, in 2001, LSUHSC began using high-tech medical mannequins to simulate human patients. LSU faculty and staff helped develop life-size mannequins that breathe and blink, have heartbeats and ...

How do you learn to take a blood sample without causing discomfort to your first patient? You can if your first patient is a mannequin. St. Luke’s new Motion Medical Education Lab has lifelike ...

She’s in labor, and nurse Shanti Fernandez is helping to deliver her baby. While another nurse assures her that everything will be fine, Fernandez pulled out a healthy baby boy — made of silicone.

A roomful of patients have blank stares as they eye medical students and professionals inside a $3.3 million simulation laboratory at the Dayton VA Medical Center. Not unlike any other hospital ...

She’s in labor, and nurse Shanti Fernandez is helping to deliver her baby. While another nurse assures her that everything will be fine, Fernandez pulled out a healthy baby boy — made of silicone.

FAST FACTSKey features of the SimMan 3G:• Pores and glands bleed, sweat, cry and drool.• Pupils dilate according to light and health.• Receptors can take and measure defibrillator shocks.• Students ...

GATESVILLE – The Laerdal Medical Corporation plant in Gatesville will be getting a new look in 2014, company officials said, but the plant’s 200 employees will continue making high-tech mannequins for ...

New York City doctors-in-training have never had a shortage of patients on whom to hone their skills: The city is rich in academic medical centers and hospitals with doctor training programs. But to ...

Lying on the table, surrounded by two nurses, a woman shrieks in pain, "There’s something horribly wrong!" She’s in labor, and nurse Shanti Fernandez is helping to deliver her baby. While another ...

Lying on the table, surrounded by two nurses, a woman shrieks in pain, "There's something horribly wrong!" She's in labor, and nurse Shanti Fernandez is helping to deliver her baby. While another ...